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>Everything the article says - [...] - is extremely useful to anyone else

The post you replied to tried to explain why it's actually not useful. The journalist uses a style of seductive writing (some call it "narrative fallacy"[1]) which connects plausible-sounding causes to its supposedly logical effects. That style of explanation can actually make readers dumber about what happened because it leaves out counterexamples.

That "narrative fallacy" is common in writings from Harvard Business Review, histories, biographies, newspapers & pundits trying to explain why the Dow Jones Index went up/down, why startups/products failed/succeeded, etc. All of those suffer the omission of counterexamples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_White



> That style of explanation can actually make readers dumber about what happened because it leaves out counterexamples.

Thank you for writing this




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