Both sides' extremes are idiots
This chap (one of the smartest hedgefunders in the business) has a pre-prepped summary of being a grown-up:
https://www.quora.com/What-dont-most-liberals-realize/answer/Tom-Costello-22
> I think both conservatives and liberals make errors in their core assumptions. Here are a few core assumptions which I think are continually made by liberals and conservatives but to different political ends:
* Correlation is not causality.
* The ‘average’ of a population doesn’t tell you anything about any individual member of group, nor does citing an individual member that deviates from the average, counter any argument about the group as a whole.
* Inequality of outcomes isn’t evidence of anything.
* There are no circumstances where a specific categorization applies to every member of a group. In all measurable ways, people fall into a distribution of the property in question. One has most, one has the least, and most people are somewhere in the middle.
* Every public policy benefit has a cost. There is no ‘free lunch’ or ‘free’ anything else… ever.
There are ‘facts’, and then there are how we ‘feel’ about the facts. One doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the other.
* A person’s ‘true intent’ is unknowable to anyone but them. There is no psychic ability to infer intent from what they said.
* If you want to know what people ‘really’ think, look at what they do, not what they say.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
