You might be interested in aleatoric vs epistemic uncertainty

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real_World/ale_epi.html

SimpleStacker

What if all the uncertainty in economics is just measuring bad?

What if all the uncertainty in science as a whole is just measuring bad?

Whatever the case, I have always been pretty skeptical of the data points declared via mass survey. Surveys have got to be incredibly blunt instruments.

Politics_And_Law

econ

Sun, Statistics, and Britain's Productivity Non-Puzzle (FT, Louis Ashworth)

denlillaapan

What if all the uncertainty in economics is just measuring bad? 

What if all the uncertainty in science as a whole is just measuring bad?

What if uncertainty is just measuring...

Whatever the case, I have always been pretty skeptical of the data points declared via mass survey. Surveys have got to be incredibly blunt instruments.