Nearly all of the statistics upon which communal, institutional and governmental decision-making depend are now catastrophically outdated. They are fossils from the before of climate change, the pandemic, and the presently profuse black swan generating situation presented by our modern circumstances and vulnerabilities. If you need an example, just think about life-expectancy…

Although the nature of statistical analysis is always incomplete and can never catch up to the phenomena it examines, the present situation is far worse, because profound degrees of unpredictability have been imported into nearly every context we analyze.