Comments on: How to Be Wrong (continued) http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/10/how-to-be-wrong-continued/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: son2 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/10/how-to-be-wrong-continued/#comment-126492 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:18:09 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/10/how-to-be-wrong-continued/#comment-126492 <blockquote>I made very clear how this tendency is a problem, giving the analogy of a car that could turn left but not right. Obviously bad.</blockquote> There were a lotta cars in Daytona Beach this past week that could only turn left. Ryan Newman won $1.6 million with one of those cars. Which is a lot more than <i>my</i> car ever made <i>me</i>.

I made very clear how this tendency is a problem, giving the analogy of a car that could turn left but not right. Obviously bad.

There were a lotta cars in Daytona Beach this past week that could only turn left. Ryan Newman won $1.6 million with one of those cars. Which is a lot more than my car ever made me.

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]]> by: Andrew Gelman http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/10/how-to-be-wrong-continued/#comment-121021 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:52:17 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/10/how-to-be-wrong-continued/#comment-121021 Bill James wrote about baseball managers that the important skill was to make use of what your players _can_ do, rather than focusing on what they _can't_. He used Earl Weaver as an example of someone who made good use of his players. Weaver discussed this in his books, too, I think. Something about not having players on your bench unless you're willing to send them up to bat (or to pitch). But Weaver didn't do much "nurturing," at least not how that term is generally construed. Bill James wrote about baseball managers that the important skill was to make use of what your players _can_ do, rather than focusing on what they _can’t_. He used Earl Weaver as an example of someone who made good use of his players. Weaver discussed this in his books, too, I think. Something about not having players on your bench unless you’re willing to send them up to bat (or to pitch).

But Weaver didn’t do much “nurturing,” at least not how that term is generally construed.

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