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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Economics is just statistics but they ignore half the data that goes into it. It's homeopathic statistics.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And economics is inherently chaotic, with near identical inputs to a system resulting in wildly different outputs.

ed:sp

[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

"yo it'd be funny if we invested in Playstation"

Boom, all the predictions just went out the window