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at this point you are just embarrassing yourself with your weird crusade attack "psychologists and supporters". I'm sure most readers in this forum feel intuitively that mental abi…

are you some sort of indian nationalist?

the point is that they predict future performance equally for different groups, not just that they predict performance. your language is alarmingly exaggerated and pompous for some…

the opinions of ignorant journalists are not really relevant. it was strongly criticized by experts in the relevant area. do you realize how intellectually lazy you look when you f…

from your link: "The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that in the United States IQ tests as predictors of social achievement are…

"the mismeasure of man" is a garbage book by the noted fraud and liar steven jay gould. it certainly should not be used as any sort of reference on intelligence testing.

This whole post is a perfect example of the danger of Taleb's work. Someone with no knowledge of finance or statistics has read his books and now feels able to make extremely stron…

no, it's just bad writing. meandering nonsense is never good writing, though perhaps it boosts your ego to feel like you are part of a special club (of millions) that understands h…

this happens all the time in the UK. big accounting firms and F100 companies recruit people in unrelated degrees all the time.

mostly luck

he's really lost the plot. :(

but of course any intelligent person can do those jobs without a "business" degree.

Entry into higher education is more competitive in most European countries...

it is British -- not Scottish -- oil.

could you explain a bit more about the mechanics of buying/selling retail flow? or is there any standard reference for learning more about the details?

how does interactivebrokers compare to this in terms of cost? are there any hidden costs retail investors should be aware of?

are you ok with the vast amount of money and time currently wasted on higher education? do you think the four year degree is really the most appropriate form of training in most ca…

there are a lot of investment funds out there. even if none possess any skill, it is possible for a few to produce extreme risk-adjusted performance simply by chance.

Where is the paper for this novel clustering algorithm?

but you are not thinking hard, you are running silly worthless simulations and puffing up your own ego.

What a bizarre article. this is a worthless exercise without any data. the task of building a model of labour market and estimating your model with real data is very complicated.

you should actually make an effort to learn and understand modern economics before coming to such strong conclusions. there are good reasons why the discipline exists in its curren…

bigotry? i don't think you understand what that word means.

without British rule India would be an even bigger shit hole.

i think the "trend" is towards advising people against studying humanities unless they have a very strong motivation to study these subjects and are fully aware of the opportunity …