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by anonymars 93 days ago
With time, I've come to think the trouble is--as usual--there's no singular right answer, only trade-offs

Sabermetrics (Moneyball) captivated us with the idea that "gut feelings" and "stories" were inferior to raw hard data, but that same notion could also accurately be called "the McNamara fallacy"