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“The fetishization of parsimony means that unwieldy theories are often dismissed on these grounds alone...
No doubt there is something less satisfying about settling for inelegance, but the best theories won't always feel right. Elegance is not a suitable heuristic for veracity” - Nina Strohminger

Chapter 6 - poor means of measurement and individualisation of structural problems, but from a progressive angle.
Chapter 7 - crisis of non-replicability. A finding in search of a hypothesis
Chapter 8 - Nudging, which works, but only up to a certain limit

Cross reference to the work done by John Friedman and Matthew Jackson et al. It’s the same story about the wealthier being able to withstand more shocks and be exposed to better influences that help them succeed.

Chapter 1 - Causation vs Correlation
Chapter 2 - Conceptual fuzziness and statistical misuses
Chapter 3 - P hacking
Chapter 4 - unskilled intuition