Pattern recognition/critical thinking from following sabermetrics is literally the reason I'm an insane reactionary today.
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>be me, a progressive >Ferguson happens >BLM happens >love stats, crunch numbers on police shootings of black men to own the right >learn that unarmed black men are the least likely to be killed by police Oh... oh no
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Bill James in the 1988 (iirc) Baseball Abstract talked about the factors for similarity scores and rookie projections - turns out including race improved the predictions There's no safe space for noticing
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Correct. That's the right book.
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I wrote the pertinent parts here:https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/2017/03/25/possibly-retracting-my-article-on-hbd-and-sports/ …
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Quotes from Taboo by Jon Entine.
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It's fun to be an analytically-grounded contrarian when there's nothing real on the line.
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For now
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Also hockey is just a faster version of Soccer played on Ice and with an invisible ball
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tombstone quote imo
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There is no safe space. You will be assimilated. We will add your stale pale male distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Soon at
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Not for the Indians...from the people I’ve followed, ones a SJW and ashamed of being white, and the other is likely a communist. I just want to see stat analysis, but I get the above BS peppered into my timeline.
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...and maybe make a little profit if they're inclined in that direction.
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I wonder how many of those sabermetric gurus every actually watch a real baseball game, or could even explain how to perform any basic baseball skills.
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An exception that proves the rule.
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