Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Why Geography is Harder than Physics

Read about how, for the last few years, some of the world's top physicists and mathematicians have gone to work in Wall Street, attempting to bring the predictive strengths of physics and mathematical models to the financial markets. As we have seen, the results have not been overwhelmingly successful. As in all the social sciences, the unpredictability of human behaviour has made highly accurate predictions problematic.

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