I forgot. Campbell’s Law is as follows: “The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.” Read the Wikipedia entry…
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Bob Murphy NAILS IT: A well-known free-market economist recently submitted an essay to me, asking that I publish it on my blog. Let me reproduce a sample of it and then tell you how I answered him: The continuing slowness of economic growth in high-income economies has prompted soul-searching among economists. They have looked to…
DetailsA few notables floating around… I read a book about the VA recommended by a cousin. The book raved about how great the system was, and how we should socialize all medicine for the same reasons the VA works. Sounds like people are backpedaling from those types of generalizations now.But I did ask my cousin…
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2+2=5: The phrase “two plus two equals five” (“2 + 2 = 5”) is a slogan used in many different forms of media, but more specifically in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one may be required to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in…
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There are a few quotes that give me serious pause when I see them – and not in a good way. Let me explain what you sound like when you use them… “Privilege” There are some beliefs so stupid that only academics and the college brainwashed educated can justify them. “Privilege” is a lazy generalization…
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