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A comment on Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption. Parent comment

Re:Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending ... by tomkarlo on Thursday December 20, 2012 @07:19PM (#4950816)
Okay, but all routes to that gaming - at least at the institutional level - ran through being able to do it without it impacting credit ratings. Credit ratings and security pricing are very dependent on statistical models for risk, in particular correlation and downside outcomes.
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Re:Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending ... by pdonis on Thursday December 20, 2012 @08:08PM (#4950969)
all routes to that gaming

All routes to that particular method of gaming. There are other methods.

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