Investors have forgotten the scientific method
https://www.reuters.com/markets/investors-have-forgotten-scientific-method-2025-10-31
Since the 1980s, technological advances have made data more widely available, facilitating abundant, sound research that has expanded our knowledge of how the market functions. And some of this research has involved rigorous testing and advanced statistical analysis.
Investors must nevertheless continue to be discriminating with respect to allegedly expert advice. Protecting their financial wellbeing depends on conscientiously differentiating between mere hypotheses – flat-out assertions based solely on opinion – and conclusions grounded in rigorous analysis that follows the scientific method.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/investors-have-forgotten-scientific-method-2025-10-31
Since the 1980s, technological advances have made data more widely available, facilitating abundant, sound research that has expanded our knowledge of how the market functions. And some of this research has involved rigorous testing and advanced statistical analysis.
Investors must nevertheless continue to be discriminating with respect to allegedly expert advice. Protecting their financial wellbeing depends on conscientiously differentiating between mere hypotheses – flat-out assertions based solely on opinion – and conclusions grounded in rigorous analysis that follows the scientific method.