Meanings
plural chaoplexologists
- One who studies chaoplexology.
It reminds me of the rhetoric of chaoplexologists whom I critiqued in The End of Science. Like chaoplexologists, Big Data adherents profess an almost religious faith in the power of computers to solve problems that have resisted traditional scientific methods.
2015, John Horgan, The End Of Science Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In: The Twilight Of The Scientific Age, Basic Books, →ISBN
Origin
From chaoplexolog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, chao- + -plex + -o- + -log + -ist.
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