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4. My initial reactions sound disturbingly (to me) like how the baseball old guard reacted to Billy Beane in Moneyball. (Though I think the analogy is very incomplete.)
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If you're defending Moneyball, then you may have one more reason to doubt Levitt's ability to carry out this study. He appears to think Moneyball is overrated; maybe even incorrect (though I don't know if he goes that far; I never read these entries in his blog, so I'm just passing it along).
This is the first entry:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/04/...-of-billy.html
Or go here to see several entries related to Moneyball.
http://www.technorati.com/search/bea...s.com/blog.php