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That's astrology

2024-07-18 16:56:42.199407+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Patricia Aas has been on a tear recently, reading economics books and destroying them, RT Patricia Aas @Patricia@vivaldi.net

Here I am innocently watching Edward Tufte’s keynote on data visualization and then he absolutely MURDERS economics 💀

https://youtu.be/rHUDJ8RyseQ?si=nYtoIKWyArcwbBu_

The punchline:

There have been 6 Nobel prizes in economics trying to rescue this curve

When every point on the two dimensional plane fits your model, that’s called prayer, that’s astrology!

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