OK, I promise, this will be the last Stasi post ever. tl;dr: This post is too long. Don’t read it. Some sincerity Let me be sincere for a moment before lapsing into the sort of counterproductive sarcasm that you all love or hate so much. Cass Sunstein, like Richard Epstein , is a prolific law professor with public policy interests. Sunstein and Epstein are well connected, they’re plugged in, they’re willing to write about just about anything, they have the ear of powerful government officials, and they seem to have strong feelings that if people just followed their recommendations, the world would be a better place. OK, to be fair, just about all of us feel that the world would be a better place if more people listened to us. I know I feel that way. So what’s my beef? My beef with the Sunstein/Epstein twins is that they really really really don’t want to like to admit their mistakes, even when said mistakes are in everyone’s face. This bothers me. As a statistician, I’m attuned...