Abstract | While discussing the plenary talk of Dunson (2016) at the 48th Scientic Meet-
ing of the Italian Statistical Society, I formulated a few general questions on the
role of statistics in the era of big data which stimulated an interesting debate.
They are reported here with the aim of engaging a larger audience on an issue
which promises to change radically our discipline and, more generally, science
as we know it. But is it so? |