{"id":10803,"date":"2010-01-13T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10803"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:01:09","slug":"the-physics-of-economics-will-not-be-mocked-just-ask-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10803\/the-physics-of-economics-will-not-be-mocked-just-ask-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"The Physics of Economics Will Not Be Mocked – Just Ask YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of all the propaganda about Free being the future of ideas. Really? Let’s take that to the extreme. Ideas should be free for the asking? Not in my world. But if you listen to all the utopian crack smokers pontificating while enjoying their afternoon expressos at the local Ivory Tower Starbucks, they’ll tell ya — and I swear I’m not making’ this up — you’ve seen it everywhere — ‘information wants to be free’<\/em>. Information doesn’t want anything. Duh. Folks who don’t\/won’t\/can’t come up with new ideas\/information — they<\/em> want information to be free. <\/p>\n

Allow me a major, albeit, related detour. I promise it’ll swerve back to the whole concept of Free. I’m reading one of the best books I’ve come across in quite some time. Outliers<\/em>, written by Malcolm Gladwell<\/em>. In it, among other things, he gives some astounding examples of what he empirically proves are totally erroneous conclusions based upon false assumptions. These false conclusions are then ‘proven’ by future results. In other words, horrible analysis produced WAY wrong conclusions, which were then proven ‘correct’ years later. Confusing? Here’s an example I lived in real time. <\/p>\n

Gladwell talked about this in his book, though he chose youth hockey as an example. Their system mirrors Little League exactly. We all know how Little League works. The kids are kept within their own ages more or less, so as to keep things on as even a keel as possible. When it comes time to pick All-Star teams, performance, merit if you will, is the criteria. It’s been the same since before I was born. It’s also been universally accepted as the best system. Why? They simply point to the kids they chose as ‘the elite’. As they grew older, a percentage became stars in high school. From there, some went to college and thrived at that level. Some eventually became Major League players. How much proof do we need, right? Those not chosen didn’t amount to a hill of beans for the most part. <\/p>\n

Wrong, analyst breath. The entire theory is built Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of all the propaganda about Free being the future of ideas. Really? Let’s take that to the extreme. Ideas should be free for the asking? Not in my world. 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