David_J_Balan comments on Joint Distributions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas - Less Wrong

13 Post author: David_J_Balan 20 July 2009 11:31PM

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Comment author: David_J_Balan 21 July 2009 08:23:17PM 0 points [-]

It's true that it can be rational to fire someone who doesn't buy IBM if the decision not to buy IBM constitutes evidence that worker is of low quality. But I don't think that's the case here. I think that if a football coach got fired for going for it on fourth down more often than most, he would have been fired because of that decision itself, not because going on fourth down represents a signal that he's just generally a bad coach.