Re: Been thinking about this project a lot for the past 24 hours
It's not just the moneyball/billy beane attack -- where I think he was offbase, because the point was market inefficiences in player valuation -- but other things too. There's also the real estate study, which Arnold Kling critiqued.
I guess my objection is that Levitt seems to think he can just go in to things, learn some basics and make conclusions based on data. Unfortunately, sometimes more knowledge is needed in order to understand what the data is trying to tell you. Levitt should really hire Ed Miller or King Yao, who would both probably be interested and flattered.
(and am I the only one who really wishes King Yao were teaching me to bet sports?)
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