Beauty at a Smaller Dimension
From Hardwood Paroxysm
In the rush to quantify every dimension of on-court action, we can also lose site of the fact that the study of sports is a social science, not a natural one with immutable, discoverable laws that apply across all of space and time. “Social science is not rocket science,” Tufte said. “It’s much harder than rocket science. We make discoveries about human beings and they learn about the discoveries and they flip them, they reverse them."
