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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I'm not in the finance industry, but articles like this one http://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-returns-in-2015-2... where hedge funds returns aren't beating the market well having ridiculously high fees co
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Don't hedge funds still take the very high 2% fee even if they don't make any profit? Doesn't the 2 and 20 structure just incentivize making risky investments (where you either win big and take the 20% or lose big and take th
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I also misinterpreted the title
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Machine learning is a tool that cuts both ways - sites can use it to try and find trolls, but trolls can also use it to better automate bots.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
For an argument that is espousing the benefits of empathy, your condescending tone is very off-putting. You also use a straw-man argument - there is a difference between trusting professors more than lay people and believing that scholarly
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The existence of some very smart KFC workers doesn't mean that on average McDonald's workers are as intelligent as professors.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I would need to see the data. But already we can have a useful conversation about this fictional data, as opposed to a study where they gave an extra glass of wine to 10 people as opposed to a "control" sample of 10 more people an
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
What's your point? Are you saying intelligence is not a positive personality trait? Or that all people are equal? People are different, even if it isn't politically correct to say so.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Why do you think they have different ranges of first-hand experiences? It is undeniable that by any objective measure professors are smarter (in the sense of being better able to tackle intellectual problems) than the average population. Do
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
A confounder can remain a confounder even when you think you have controlled for all variables. Clearly social scientists are not properly analyzing their data, why should I trust them to be properly controlling for counfounding variables?
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence. This sentiment is completely ridiculous, yet I'm sure a lot of people believe it because it
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Great points. Often times studies would be much better served collecting more data and looking at interesting correlations than trying and failing to "control" for all the hidden variables and winding up with biased sample sizes o
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Productivity increases are going to the top earners, as wages stagnate for most of the population. http://inequality.org/income-inequality/ This has many reasons behind it, including political factors such as the decli
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Years of experience is how many years of experience you have, not whether or not you are good at it. A lot of companies simply won't hire if you don't have the experience, regardless of how good you are.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
It probably is comets, but why the comets are in the position they are in is not well described. Science is done by people, and it is often very challenging or impossible to rigorously quantify exactly how unlikely something is. This is esp
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
McDonald's turnover is at least 44%, so basically yes. http://fistfuloftalent.com/2008/05/can-this-turnov.html
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Every student considering going to graduate school should read this article. Professors are very misinformed about how likely someone is to get tenure (most of them got it > 20 years ago, in a much better academic job market). This misin