It's all just anecdotal evidence. You can't just point at someone and I could to tell you how savvy they are. I just note the people I know who come out ahead

It's all just anecdotal evidence. You can't just point at someone and I could to tell you how savvy they are. I just note the people I know who come out ahead or behind in their dealings, just as I note when someone says something fairly profound, finds a rather ingenious solution or writes a bit of clever code to guesstimate intelligence. I wasn't representing it as anything other than a working theory from personal data. But it's not like Adams started from a statistical argument either. I figured my experiences and generalizations were a fair response to his.