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I don't want to be negative but the article in the spectator dismiss the Gini index (that I'm sure has its problems) using a tweet as its source. Just to weigh

• gadders 11y ago
  To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb.
  • SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago
    > To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb. Do you think that's a positive recommendation? Because it's not clear and I don't.
    • gadders 11y ago
      I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet. He does at least understand finance and economics.
      • SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago
        > I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet. I used to follow him on twitter for a while, and I'm not convinced of that. His first book was a well-thought out contrarian polemic. His tweets struck me as off-the-cuff random contrarian outbursts.