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Originally Posted by
Bob21
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Originally Posted by
redietz
Peter Navarro, when asked why he is qualified to have an opinion regarding COVID-19 treatments, answered, "I'm a social scientist. I have a Ph.D. I know how to read studies and statistics."
Now, I'm not sure how many of you have MDs or PhDs, but this is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. This is like a baker telling you he should fix your car because he can read Popular Mechanics or Street Rods magazines.
I have about two dozen friends who have PhDs in social science, and they are going to be thrilled that they can recommend treatments because they have PhDs, and can read studies and statistics. It's a shame my late wife isn't alive, as with two PhDs in social sciences, she would be in great medical demand.
It's just stunning hubris. A doctorate in one field has about as much expertise in another as a blackjack counter has regarding hockey betting.
Excellent post redietz. You could add this makes as much sense as thinking the math behind blackjack somehow gives someone insight into the math behind the stock market. As if there’s some magic math formula to predict the stock market.
When I was reading Ed Thorpe’s book “A man for all markets” and I got to the chapter where he was trying to relate math for blackjack to math for the stock market, I couldn’t even get through the chapter. I put the book down and never picked it up again. I’m sure Mr. Thorpe is a fairly intelligent person. But this is stupid to the nth degree.
This is how, although there aren't government issued credentials, people in gambling get themselves gutted. They make x number of dollars in their specialty, then - whether they are Stu Ungar or Mike Lee or Tony Salinas - they think somehow expertise in one thing translates into expertise in another.
You don't hire obstetricians to do brain surgery.
I'm gonna get my compadres here buttons that say, "I'm a social scientist with a PhD. Ask ME." I mean, Jesus, some people with PhDs in one thing can't tie their shoes in another.