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by hogFeast 7y ago
What garbage. Trust isn't a dependent variable. You can't measure it. You can't produce it in a factory. The reason why people don't trust X business is because they are untrustworthy. They will be unable to win trust ba
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by hogFeast 7y ago
An important distinction. I studied history and international relations to postgrad level at an "elite" institution. As much as anyone, I see value in this research (having done it myself). But it is also important to understand t
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by hogFeast 7y ago
I laughed at this. Yes, this is what basically every economist suggests because of the way questions are posed (i.e. confusing correlation with causation...if all great salesman wear Rolexes, just buy all your bad salesman Rolexes...it is s
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by hogFeast 7y ago
If you are measuring value with price/book, you have no hope. The conceit of the "value factor" is wrong-headed: trying to measure value quantitatively is like trying to measure the aesthetic appeal of art quantitatively. It
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by hogFeast 7y ago
It isn't a "perfectly logical point" as I have explained. The study looks at technology, not war (as you are suggesting). It is probably the year in the whole of the century that, in hindsight, explains value returns best...i
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by hogFeast 7y ago
You can't go back and just say "Oh, this period and that period". That is hindsight bias. It is psychologically comforting but provides no guide to the future. It is particularly foolhardy to place the ending point at 1941. I
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Sounds like, unsurprisingly, the author hasn't spent that much time considering any of these questions themselves...they just have all the answers for those that do (thanks buddy!). Some questions just deal with issues that are just no