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0 pointsyoungprogrammer8y ago0 comments

This is nothing like the sharpshooter fallacy. The analysis determined the average performance of the analysts with >100 stocks rated and 10 analysts out of 16 did better than the rest.

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hinkley8y ago

What? They removed all the outliers. They cooked the data to say something that made sense instead of something that was accurate.

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0 pointsyoungprogrammer8y ago0 comments

This is nothing like the sharpshooter fallacy. The analysis determined the average performance of the analysts with >100 stocks rated and 10 analysts out of 16 did better than the rest.

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hinkley8y ago

What? They removed all the outliers. They cooked the data to say something that made sense instead of something that was accurate.

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