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The author seems to be something of a rightwing crank (see his writings on diversity for example), which of course does not invalidate anything purely technical he writes on statistics, but it certainly lowers my confidence in anything he says. Or, in probabilistic terms Being wrong in one area correlates well with being wrong in others.

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Let me introduce you to the ad hominem fallacy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

The group think on HN is getting bad.

But that is for deductive reasoning. Using one person's past experience only as a reference to judge is not wrong. That's why things like Curriculum Vitae is useful.

By applying your logic, I can also suggest a wiki page for you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization

A person I respect likes the author's writings, so I've read his technical posts before. Unfortunately, turns out respect isn't transitive (even on the technical level).

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