If you’re counting something, like screws at the hardware store, it’s pretty straightforward. Carr grounds his “2+2=5” concept in the ways statistical models can cause harm to marginalized groups across certain parameters. ➡️ How 2+2=5 Became Political PropagandaWhile Carr’s debate surrounding “2+2=5” is somewhat postmodern in nature, the equation has a storied past as a tenet of anti-intellectualism. For instance, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set up the unnamed protagonist in his 1864 novel Notes from Underground to believe that 2+2=5. “If we’re going to be a world that’s just in apps, we need to be sure these things are working how we think they work.”