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Ask the astrologists, I'm sure they will give you ones that are exactly as accurate as the ones the economists will give you.

• notahacker 4y ago
  There's a certain irony to critiquing the evidence basis of a discipline with "I don't know anything about this, but I'm sure it's exactly as accurate anyway".
  • jrm4 4y ago
    I didn't say "I don't know anything." I'm telling you -- I am certain you could find it because astrologists and macroeconomists are all over the place enough such that you could cherry pick correct ones.
    • notahacker 4y ago
      But whilst any idiot can cherry pick many many examples of economists (or physicists or biologists or computer scientists or meteorologists or basically any other field) predicting things with great confidence which turned out to be incorrect or using a model which didn't work very well, you can't cherry pick examples from astrology in which someone predicted a relationship between variables which turned out to be so robust even their greatest rivals consisted it was correct.