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Without saying anything about the broader thrust of an argument, I'll highlight a pet peeve: the drawing of wildly overconfident conclusions from social science research.

The economics experiment on how rural Indian farmers respond to financial incentives is interesting, but... is it really applicable here? How solid is the unstated assumption that elite CEOs have similar ability to perform under pressure as random subsistence farmers? Doesn't sound that solid to me...




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