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I got this result because I'm a lawyer down to the DNA.


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According to the movie Adam's Rib, lawyers should never marry other lawyers; it's called inbreeding, and it produces idiot children. I stand as a proud (?) counterexample. My parents did, however, worry about regression to the mean*, or at least they told me so jokingly, which says rather a lot about my parents and the level of humor in our household.

*Regression towards the mean is a statistical phenomenon: extreme results tend to be balanced out by less extreme results. Two really smart people, for example, may be likely to have a child who's smarter than average, but not as smart as they are.

A good, funny rant on investing

If you don't have time to read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" or "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?" (the latter by Donald McCloskey, now known as Dierdre McCloskey), check out this short diatribe on investing: Money, Money, Money (and Investing). It's funny, and the author's not afraid to talk about his own mistakes.

Meanwhile, I'm starting to review chapter 2 of the Consumer Law textbook I got comped because I said I might use it in my false advertising class. Only Chapter 1 was really oriented to false advertising, though. I'm reading the rest because it's always useful to know more than your students if they ask about marginally related issues.