“During the dot-com bubble, most people did not use a persuasive theory to gauge whether stock prices were too high, too low, or just right. Instead, as they watched stock prices go up, they invented explanations to rationalize what was happening. They talked about Moore’s Law, smart kids, and Alan Greenspan. Data without theory.”
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Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
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