Brilliant Sean Mastrom's blog entry

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Squilliam said:

celine said:

Squilliam said:

 

Because for someone who seems to think he understands, he actually doesn't.

1. His posts read like a cross between a get rich quick book and cultist literature. They do not understand, while you the reader understands because you listen to me.
2. He has a propensity for creating straw man arguments to caricature people like analysts/journalists/publishers/console developers etc and then defeating them.
3. He is an "intuitive type" but without hard data that analysts have access to, he may as well sit in the lotus position and smoke his bong for all the understanding it will give him of the "market"
4. His bias is extremely evident in everything he writes. He appears to only accept information that supports his world view. In mathematics class if I get lucky and give the right answer but the method to get that answer was completely wrong, giving the correct answer doesn't matter because I still fail.

 

 

Squilliam essentially gets things. Malstrom appears to not understand economics, which to someone educated in their area of finance, economics and business makes many of his arguments appear without substance.

You guys can find small flaws in Squillian's post because few of us have times to dedicate large posts to these things with all the suitable caveats. Well done on that. Squillian on the oher hand finds flaws in Malstrom's entire methodology, which is fairly significant.

Luckily he tells a lot of fanboys what they want to here so none of that will matter to them. But for the record, you should all aspire to be far more knowledgable than Malstrom - because it's not that hard (I promise).