{"id":5756,"date":"2013-05-14T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:42:27","slug":"how-to-strengthen-your-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/how-to-strengthen-your-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR ARGUMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR ARGUMENT:<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve posted my two doc showing excatly where economics use BS statistical methods that do not support their conclusions (=&gt;irresponsible charlatans), no economist has anything said of *substance*. But the good news is that they were not silent, but annoyed and critical. Every sentence that is not directed at the argument strengthens it.<\/p>\n<p>The doc is now 110 pages, here. Read Chapters 1-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk\/edit\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk\/edit<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>The econ professors (typically young professors starting a career) seem to comment here. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.econjobrumors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.econjobrumors.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151482205433375&amp;id=13012333374\">HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR ARGUMENT: Since&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR ARGUMENT: Since I&#8217;ve posted my two doc showing excatly where economics use BS statistical methods that do not support their conclusions (=&gt;irresponsible charlatans), no economist has anything said of *substance*. But the good news is that they were not silent, but annoyed and critical. Every sentence that is not directed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}