167: Diluted effect sizes
Everything Hertz
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Is Everything That's Yellow a Good Idea?
The way that we structure empirical information over time is very noisy in many respects. The closer you get to larger macro phenomena, there is a trade off between precision and implications for something that we understand on a behavioral level. There's very little work in building better tools in a space like this. So it would be very interesting if people who are into managing reality were really interested in how it might work. They're just interested in going around and proving things. But shit, it's so fucking pulsating to complain about this now. It's so done.
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