Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:19:11 02/16/06
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On February 16, 2006 at 08:54:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On February 16, 2006 at 01:26:41, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>Surely there must be some difference between "bad taste" and questioning a
>>persons *honesty*?
>>
>>Then again - who cares about nodes? The playing strength is what counts.
>>
>>/S
>
>A recent study has reveiled that in a big tests, emotional psychopaths were
>consistently performing better at buying and selling shares and stocks than
>non-psychopaths, as they mercilous took decisions without taking into account
>anything else but the principle of making profit.
>
>If you deal with an emotional psychopath, please note i do NOT say Vasik is one,
>do you find him a better person because he makes a bit more profit with his
>$5000 at wallstreet than you do with your $5000?
Not a better person, but no one is talking about that. Sune said what mattered
for an engine in this case is its performance. It could say it got 20 million
NPS, but even if it was true, no one would really care if it was not also
strong. Same goes for being strong, but having a low NPS count (even if we know
it isn't accurate).
Since you said emotional psycopaths make a bigger profit, then I *would*
conclude, presuming your data to be correct, that emotional psycopaths are
better traders.
Albert
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