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ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 22 January 2016 03:25:52AM 1 point [-]

Are the hypothesises financial engineers make unscientific?

Depends on your definition of "scientific".

Markets change. What used to be true ten years ago might not be true now.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 January 2016 10:54:10AM 0 points [-]

Depends on your definition of "scientific".

In this case it seems to mean "What Wikipedia considers scientific enough to back up a claim".