Re:Lose the Nostalgia, Do a Trade Study (Score 1)

He didn't publish the article in Scientific American or the Wall Street Journal. He published it to a blog, which certainly validates the use of opinion. It was interesting and thought-provoking to read. Why can't it stand alone on those merits? Does every published work have to quantify a finding in concrete and irrefutable terms? Of course, I'm not denigrating works that do quantify such things, but neither do I think we should denigrate works such as this because they are, by definition, inconclusive.