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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 02:16 AM EST
I got no sense that you should read FM because he was right, but because it
provides another data point. A consistent source of data is valuable, even if
the data is always pointing in the wrong direction. At the very least, we get a
sense of what his minders want us to be thinking.

"It is always wise to know what tunes the Devil is playing" -- Jeves

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Actually, ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 04:53 AM EST
Except Groklaw has a record of being right.
Not quite: we can't just replace judge and jury by Groklaw: there have been quite a few wrong predictions.

Some of them overturned on appeal, yes.

Groklaw has a pretty good track record presenting the underlying materials, and of updating its predictions as new information arrives.

It is quite biased in what it wishes to happen and how it reports it, but pretty good in letting its wishes not interfere with the predictions.

And that's where the track record of a number of others is not exactly fabulous. But then they are partly being paid for making those predictions.

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Actually, ...
Authored by: Wol on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 09:28 AM EST
A music critic I used to read regularly said he didn't like anonymous critics,
as some newspapers insist on using. And the anecdote he told to support it was
amusing ...

"Someone wrote in and said I was an awful critic. They'd bought several
albums I'd recommended and hated them all, so now they never buy anything I
recommend. Actually, I'd say that means I'm doing my job well. They now know
that their tastes are different from mine and anything I like would be a waste
of money for them. So I've just saved them from wasting £15!"

There's no harm - indeed there can be a lot of value - in reading people whose
opinions you don't agree with / like / trust. Not least it prevents you getting
an insular view of the world ... !!!

Cheers,
Wol

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  • Actually, ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 04 2013 @ 10:45 AM EST
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