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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (7077)	10/13/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) of 9980

tangent joke on the evolution of investors' brains >>>Since our brains have evolved little since the introduction of markets, these markets react essentially the same now as they did 100 years ago and will 100 years hence, IMO.<<< Think that's actually quite an understatement! In order to have more highly evolved investors' brains there has to be some sort of selection process where successful investors have more surviving offspring than unsuccessful investors... Perhaps the question is: would the following pickup line work (repeatedly) for Warren Buffet "Hey baby, want a chance to produce the next Warren Buffet?" Perhaps the (more morbid) question is: Does the tendency of unsuccessful investors to jump off of tall buildings have a large enough effect on the gene pool to produce a measurable advancement in the average intrinsic investor competence of the population? East Asian question: In the model of Punctuated Equilibrium. a catastrophe often acts as a major selection event on what was a stable gene pool. Does the East Asian financial crisis have the potential to produce a generation of Warren Buffets?

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