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Because there are far, far too many counterexamples for the hypothesis to be true in any useful sense.
by hx87 10y ago
Because there are far, far too many counterexamples for the hypothesis to be true in any useful sense.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoDalio's "by and large" indicates that he feels it's generally true, not universally true. I.e. a statistical trend, not a hard and fast rule. How do your uncited counterexamples show that a statistical trend is not true in any useful sense? Moreover, why isn't it reasonable to treat it as a hypothesis that is true in many specific contexts? Should we also discuss the personal awfulness of people who believe in normal distributions as a useful principle since not all data is normally distributed? "Racists and child molesters sometimes use normal distributions to model the world!"
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