Timework Web wrote:
>The demotic prose in question is in chapter one of every introductory
>probability and statistics text ever written. It's the prediction of the
>model that astounds me -- "that people may pay for financial advice from
>'experts' whose expertise is entirely illusory." I'm getting right to work
>on a model to predict the religion of the pope and the whereabouts of the
>bears' bowel movements.
Just make sure they're scientific, well-outfitted with Greek letters
and subscripts. Lots of people knew that financial advisors are less
reliable than monkeys throwing darts, but you needed a model to prove
it.
Doug
