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Noooooo you can’t just run independent experiments you need institutions and phds and bureaucracy and gold plating nooooo
by derlvative 2y ago
Noooooo you can’t just run independent experiments you need institutions and phds and bureaucracy and gold plating nooooo
- smohare 2y agoIt’s not about elitism. It’s that there are so many confounding factors that even a well-informed approach makes such a study comtain very little of value Comments like yours expose a particularly distasteful amount of hubris.
- derlvative 2y agoYou don’t like it you don’t have to read the blog article. I assure you are not the intended audience. For the rest of us it provided valuable insight.
- CamperBob2 2y agoThese smug pilots have lost touch with the down-to-earth lives and concerns of ordinary passengers like us. Let's see a show of hands: who thinks I should fly the plane?
- eru 2y agoYou should link to the source of your quote.
- CamperBob2 2y agoArguably so, but all I can find are other plagiarized copies. :-P The New Yorker's paywall has successfully obscured the origin of the joke, so that's on them, as far as I'm concerned.
- eru 2y agoYes. Well, instead of an actual web link, you could just mention that it's from the New Yorker.
- CamperBob2 2y ago"It's from the New Yorker. The most important magazine of our time. Probably the most important magazine that ever was." (From a vaguely-remembered 1990s-era ad campaign that I thought was excruciatingly self-indulgent at the time, but which evidently worked.)