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It was so laughable he got a Nobel prize for it. That's not to say Kahneman is always right, but he is always worth listening to.
by jonknee 8y ago
It was so laughable he got a Nobel prize for it. That's not to say Kahneman is always right, but he is always worth listening to.
- unmole 8y agoCiting someone's Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is probably the worst kind of an appeal to authority.
- beat 8y agoExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Most of us trust the Nobel Prize to be a mostly-neutral arbiter of excellence in various fields. That means it is not the worst kind of appeal to authority, but rather the best - referencing a well-known and widely trusted source. Can you give us a reason we shouldn't trust it in the general case, since your claim extends to the general, not the specific?
- 77pt77 8y ago> Most of us trust the Nobel Prize to be a mostly-neutral arbiter of excellence in various fields. Even if that were true, there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It's a completely different prize, given by a different institution, that was associated much later with the Noble prizes.