Comments on: Did the super-smart (numerati) cause the near economic collapse? http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/10/16/ssnec/ Practical Analytics for Better Decisions Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GoodPeace http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/10/16/ssnec/comment-page-1/#comment-278 GoodPeace Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:25:21 +0000 http://www.freakalytics.com/?p=1358#comment-278 Without having read the nyt article, I'd like to propose the idea , that the number-crunching analysts* _enabled_ the instruments, and the rest of the crowd came with their greed and/or stupidity. * ("numerati" sounds like some bestseller i idocracy, I don't think that's appropriate, but it sells papers I guess) Without having read the nyt article, I’d like to propose the idea , that the number-crunching analysts* _enabled_ the instruments, and the rest of the crowd came with their greed and/or stupidity.

* (“numerati” sounds like some bestseller i idocracy, I don’t think that’s appropriate, but it sells papers I guess)

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