It will never not be funny to me that people who know literally nothing about economics can very easily out-forecast state of the art models direct from the literature, something which is true for no other major discipline. https://t.co/i9atq0ILRc

— Quantian (@quantian1) January 21, 2020

True. Learning economics makes you actively dumber. There is no other field where laypeople are reliably better than “experts.” None. It’s shocking when you learn this.