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The major difference is that Matt listens when presented with a reasonable counterargument. Like, as his first instinct. Will does sometimes, but he gets so much hate that he also has a hair trigger.

Oh. My. God. So much "you're contradicting my lived experience". It's just this post over and over again.

And also, if people don't like Matt they can just block him, and it said a lot that they don't. Specifically, what they want is for Matt to engage in a maoist self criticism struggle session

No—I just want him to stop weaseling about whether the layoff data is just a Fun Fact that says more about the gap between the map and the territory, or whether it actually reflects some way in that every single industry expert is getting things wildly wrong. I like data, I don’t like its abuse.

it is annoying to be forced to do research because a shitpost gained too much traction but these are the hazards of the business

I also enjoy watching him try to explain the difference between mean and median, a concept I believe I learned in middle school

less flippantly, a lot of the discussions he gets involved in turn in to fairly interesting examples of the way stats get distorted between "study measures a thing" and "people talk about that measurement"