Q: Did you let people copy off you in college statistics, or were you selfish and covered up your paper?
A: In middle school, I once put down a bunch of fake/wrong answers on a math test since I knew that people were peeking. By my senior year in college, however, I was reasonably burned out so it was buyer beware if anyone was trying to cheat.Q: Who gave the most ridiculous refutations of your work? Old school baseball guys, or GOP media a couple weeks ago?
A: It's much worse in politics, I think.
1) People in sports will make lots of silly refutations of your arguments. But they do tend to deal with your arguments, rather than attack your character or your integrity.
2) A lot of people in politics operate in a "post-truth" worldview, whether they realize it or not. Less of that in sports.
3) In sports, scouts actually contribute a lot of value, even though statistics are highly useful as well. In politics, the pundits are completely useless at best, and probably harm democracy in their own small way.
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