您现在的位置：首页 > 英语听力 > 国外媒体资讯 > 英国卫报 > 正文

英国卫报:你还在相信统计数据吗?(16)

时间:2021-01-28 17:45:00 来源:可可英语编辑:Vicki 可可英语APP下载 | 可可官方微信:ikekenet

字号：大 | 中 | 小

打印

收藏本文

On the one hand, it is worth recognising the capacity of long-standing political institutions to fight back.
一方面，值得承认的是，长期存在的政治机构有能力予以反击。

Just as "sharing economy" platforms such as Uber and Airbnb have recently been thwarted by legal rulings(Uber being compelled to recognise drivers as employees,
正如优步和爱彼迎等“共享经济”平台最近受到法律裁决的阻挠(优步被迫承认司机是雇员，

Airbnb being banned altogether by some municipal authorities), privacy and human rights law represents a potential obstacle to the extension of data analytics.
爱彼迎被一些市政当局完全禁止)，隐私和人权法律是数据分析扩展的潜在障碍。

What is less clear is how the benefits of digital analytics might ever be offered to the public, in the way that many statistical data sets are.
数据分析的好处如何以许多统计数据集的方式提供给公众，这一点我们不太清楚。

Bodies such as the Open Data Institute, co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee, campaign to make data publicly available, but have little leverage over the corporations where so much of our data now accumulates.
由蒂姆·伯纳斯-李联合创立的“开放数据研究所”等机构致力于让数据公开，但这对如今积累了很多数据的企业并没有什么影响力。

Statistics began life as a tool through which the state could view society, but gradually developed into something that academics, civic reformers and businesses had a stake in.
统计一开始是国家用来观察社会的工具，但逐渐发展成了和学者、公民改革者和企业都利害攸关的东西。

But for many data analytics firms, secrecy surrounding methods and sources of data is a competitive advantage that they will not give up voluntarily.
但对于许多数据分析公司来说，对数据方法和来源保密是一种竞争优势，它们不会自愿放弃这种优势。

A post-statistical society is a potentially frightening proposition, not because it would lack any forms of truth or expertise altogether, but because it would drastically privatise them.
后统计社会是一个可怕的潜在命题，不是因为它会完全缺乏任何形式的真相或专业知识，而是因为这会将它们彻底私有化。

Statistics are one of many pillars of liberalism, indeed of Enlightenment.
统计学是自由主义、甚至是启蒙运动的众多支柱之一。

The experts who produce and use them have become painted as arrogant and oblivious to the emotional and local dimensions of politics.
制作和使用它们的专家们被描绘成傲慢自大、无视政治情感和地方层面之人。

No doubt there are ways in which data collection could be adapted to reflect lived experiences better.
毫无疑问，有很多方法可以使数据收集更好地反映生活经验。

But the battle that will need to be waged in the long term is not between an elite-led politics of facts versus a populist politics of feeling.
但长期而言，需要进行的斗争不是精英主导的事实政治与民粹主义政治之间的斗争，

It is between those still committed to public knowledge and public argument and those who profit from the ongoing disintegration of those things.
而是那些仍致力于公共知识和公共辩论的人和那些正在瓦解这些东西的人之间的斗争。

扫描二维码进行跟读打分训练

1.have a stake in 与……利害攸关

Many young people no longer feel they have a stake in society.

很多年轻人不再觉得他们与社会休戚相关Za*V1Ln[t];。

2.be committed to 致力于

Groups like ours are committed to eradicating homophobia, racism and sexism.

像我们这样的组织致力于消除同性恋憎恶、种族歧视和性别歧视ACm;CCC#ap4nP-_&_J;R。

译文由可可原创，仅供学习交流使用，未经许可请勿转载%tVwQL~IJT,2=|Dyy。

上一页 [1] [2] 下一页 查看《英国卫报》更多内容>>

保存到QQ日志登录QQ空间

重点单词		查看全部解释
privacy	['praivəsi]	想一想再看 n. 隐私，隐居，秘密	联想记忆 X 单词privacy 联想记忆： priv单个+acy→隐私
reflect	[ri'flekt]	想一想再看 v. 反映，反射，归咎	联想记忆 X 单词reflect 联想记忆： re反，flect折－光线反折－反射，在大脑中反射－思考
liberalism	['libərə.lizəm]	想一想再看 n. 自由主义，开明的思想 Liberalis
campaign	[kæm'pein]	想一想再看 n. 运动，活动，战役，竞选运动 v. 从事运	联想记忆 X 单词campaign 联想记忆： camp（n 田野，营地），aign名词后缀－营地－备战的地方
legal	['li:gəl]	想一想再看 adj. 法律的，合法的，法定的	联想记忆 X 单词legal 联想记忆： leg法律+al→法律的
advantage	[əd'vɑ:ntidʒ]	想一想再看 n. 优势，有利条件 vt. 有利于	联想记忆 X 单词advantage 联想记忆： ad+vant来到+age名词反缀,表示“状态，总称”→利益
arrogant	['ærəgənt]	想一想再看 adj. 傲慢的，自大的	联想记忆 X 单词arrogant 联想记忆： ar一再，rog要求－一再要求－傲慢的arrow ant：一个想射箭的蚂蚁－傲慢自大的
voluntarily	['vɔləntərili]	想一想再看 adv. 自动地，以自由意志
potential	[pə'tenʃəl]	想一想再看 adj. 可能的，潜在的 n. 潜力，潜能
institute	['institju:t]	想一想再看 n. 学会，学院，协会 vt. 创立，开始，制	联想记忆 X 单词institute 联想记忆： in进入，stitute站，建立－站进去；进入建立的状态－创立