gc suggests the following…
gc suggests the following analogy: “Gould is to evolution … as … Freud is to psychiatry … as … Marx is to economics”
This gives significantly too much in the way of props to mainstream “quantitative” psychiatry and economics. Marx and Freud both have significant advantages over the status quo in psychiatry and economics—which is not a sign of their virtues, but rather of the fields’ vices.
“I don’t think one can ever really have too much quantitative thought in a field.”
What if it’s not a quantitative field?
Anticopyright.