Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
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A popular (well at least popular with me) TV show concerns two 'mad' scientists who love nothing more than to explode urban myths. For instance they have investigated the possibility of death by urinating on a live railway line! We could do with something similar in finance. We have a bad habit of accepting theories as fact within finance, of accepting statements as if they were truths. Even when we do bother checking the data we rarely seem to update our prior beliefs in anything other than a biased fashion.
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