Quote from: TDoS on Nov 30, 2024, 06:04 PMWere you taught this perspective by someone, or did you learn it on your own?
Learned it over the years observing all the folks my dad hung out with, then the ones I met in HS, college and working world. Each uniform accompanied a certain typical personality type. Of course there are variations, and some people will change their behaviors depending on how they dress. So they act one way when they dress to go to a party, another way when they dress for work. Then what they become over the years tends to depend on how much time they spend dressed one way or the other. Somebody who spends every day in a Suit and works 12 hour days that way becomes more like that uniform behaviorally than another who only does it periodically. Same thing if it's a Cop uniform or a Nurse uniform or whatever. Each uniform has a set of behaviors that accompany the uniform, and the people wearing it expect that. It's why they wear uniforms, it telegraphs that information. This is basic psychology. The Fashion industry is built on this.
QuoteDon't know. Don't care. Not my dog in their fight. Might know some of the BOA names...I've gone round with some of them before, folks in England, maybe a year or two back. Smart, knowledgeable, knew their way around analysis, seemed informed.
But I'm not paid to match up against what newspapers print. They "know" as much stupid shit as the internet does with it comes to the intersection of science, analytic thought, analysis and econometric modeling. Throw in appropriate expression of outcomes and the playing field is relatively thin.
It's an important detail because it's worthwhile to know who is pitching out clearly bad predictions. Who are they and why does Reuters poll this particular set of experts, then publish the poll which a rag like OilPrice.com goes and reports? They must be trying to influence investors, I can't think of another reason to do that. So in effect somebody is perpetrating a fraud although you couldn't prove that legally.
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