You can't intelligently discuss throwing communists out of helicopters unless you talk about type I vs type II errors. I know of several countries that did not throw ENOUGH commies out of choppers (China, Venezuela, Russia, etc.) Is there even one case of throwing too many?https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1055437613010685953 …
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2/ There's the old economist rule of thumb: if you travel a lot and don't miss an airplane at least every now and then, you're spending too much time waiting around airports.
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3/ Corollary: if you have communist insurrections that result in complete destruction of the economy, suppression of free speech, mass murder, gulags, and haven't once over-reacted, then you're consistently under-reacting.
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Yes. The right question is whether the overall cost of your errors (summing Type I & Type II) is at a minimum. And if all the errors are in one direction, it's hard to say that's the case, even if the different types have drastically disparate costs.
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agreed cost of errors may be linear with quantity, but I'd bet against - as with supply and demand curves, there's likely increasing marginal cost. If you throw just ONE extra "commie" from the chopper, he was prob still a bad dude. Throw 1M too many, prob many good people.
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