Totally, I think one of the major dynamics of our age has been a general shift toward a new "epistemic regime" in which the vast majority of "truth making" procedures have become statistical in nature. If you look at history, we tend to move through different dominant modes of reasoning about the world: deduction, induction....I think our particular contemporary experience is one in which the new dominant mode of reasoning about everything is statistical and probabilistic. In many areas it's a boon, in others it's tragic. (the statistical treatment of human beings is one obvious case; trying to orient education psychological problems according to what the mean demands pretty much ensures everyone loses (gold star students lose out on opportunities, less gifted students start to get some help, but not nearly the case-based, customized help they really ought to)