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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by orwin on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:11AM (#20643413)
> My personal experience

Well this the point. Personnal experience is flawed and unreliable. In my personnal experience, something that weight more should fall faster. This is not the case.

Which economic theory enuce clearly the subset of conditions required to be true and fit the refutability criterion? For chemistry: all of them.

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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by klodolph on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:44PM (#20646720)
> For chemistry: all of them.

Humor me… can you give a more specific example? When I took chemistry classes I don’t remember learning a theory that was completely correct, but it has been a while.

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