There is an 'iron law of resistance' whereby traditional experts (wine tasters, baseball scouts, physicians) resist yielding their status to statistical number-crunchers, not purely on the merits but due to ego and dislike of outsiders telling them what to do.

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Ian Ayres

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there's almost an iron law of resistance that the traditional experts don't like yielding their status their to this new breed of number cruncher

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Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of Data 10/22/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:42 AM

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