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I admittedly did not read »An Essay on the Principle of Population« in its entirety, but that may actually be the point where he was the most wrong. He could no
by danbruc 9y ago
I admittedly did not read »An Essay on the Principle of Population« in its entirety, but that may actually be the point where he was the most wrong. He could not imagine the fertility rate to fall as much as it eventually did and therefore did not really expect that disaster could be avoided. But I still think it is rather misleading to turn this lack of imagination on his side for the evolution of this - of course extremely important - one factor into calling his work wrong and disproven.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI don't believe his work was wrong. He made the best prediction possible with the data available at the time.
- danbruc 9y agoI did not want to imply that you called him wrong, this was still aimed at the often repeated narrative that history has proven him wrong.
- skgoa 9y agoBut his conclusions turn out to be flat-out wrong.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoForecasting is not always accurate.