Monday, February 28, 2011

why do we give wrong answers?

often times wrong answers to a given question arise from two reasons:

(a) the answerer is trying too hard, making a simple case way more complicated than it truly is

("missing the wood for the trees")

(b) the answerer is not trying at all

>95% of "research", "policy suggestions", "white papers", "discussion papers" etc falls into one of the above two.

keep in mind the inconsistent nature of this post, which follows (almost) by definition.

the path to be followed would be to simplify to the maximum extent possible.

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