I should have put a smiley face on my 'hoax' comment! When I told my
friend that I passed on her comment, saying it must be a hoax, I
added 'If only.'
m
At 12:11 16/06/2007, walt wrote:
I don't see why their techniques are inapplicable to this. I can see how
people could gain experience and knowledge relevant to suicide bombing
without actually committing it. In fact the study can be sen as confirming
this. That Michael Lebowitz's friend disagreed with this indicates that it
is a controversial hypothesis which is relevant to test (I've usually held
that the problem with these studies trying to determine if experience and
knowledge helps performance is that the answer is obvious).
> I don't think it is a hoax. It is a NBER paper with an author from the
> RAND
> Corporation. The real hoax is that economists think that they can get
> away with
> applying their techniques to all sorts of situations, which expose the
> hollowness of
> their work.
>
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