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Was this a breach of ethics?
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21 Jul 2010, 9:59 pm

Was this a breach of ethics :?:

The Easterbrook affair


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22 Jul 2010, 9:15 am

I think it clearly was a breach of ethics from someone who should know much better (even if he doesn't understand the book properly)


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22 Jul 2010, 9:27 am

Assuming the rebuttal grounds given there are correct, yeah, it sounds like the review was poorly done and subjective. Whether that's ethically wrong (instead of just incompetent or inappropriate) depends on whether the NYT is expected to provide quality, objective reviews. I suppose it probably is, so yes, ethically bad.


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22 Jul 2010, 11:13 am

Ambivalence wrote:
Assuming the rebuttal grounds given there are correct, yeah, it sounds like the review was poorly done and subjective. Whether that's ethically wrong (instead of just incompetent or inappropriate) depends on whether the NYT is expected to provide quality, objective reviews. I suppose it probably is, so yes, ethically bad.


It seems that no one at the NYT had bothered to read the book and if they did, like Easterbrook, they did not understand it either.

Rather stupid to go up against Taleb anyway; Easterbrook was out of his depth.

It's a bit like going up against Gore Vidal, you will lose and lose quickly :wink: :arrow:


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22 Jul 2010, 11:27 am

Think I'll get a copy of Fooled by Randomness, it sounds like my kind of book.

(Lawks! I just looked up The Black Swan. Is that where rara avis comes from?)


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22 Jul 2010, 7:59 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
Think I'll get a copy of Fooled by Randomness, it sounds like my kind of book.

(Lawks! I just looked up The Black Swan. Is that where rara avis comes from?)


Easterbrook's 'review' was on The Black Swan.

Fooled by Randomness (which I have just started reading) is the 'prequel' to The Black Swan (which I have already read; both editions)

Same style and intellectual level of thought..............I love it :D


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