- there's a certain genre of guy (and it is mostly men) who's good at X technical thing but assumes that means they're good at ALL technical things "data grifter" is a good term for this when it's someone who's good at building ML models but confidently makes pretty basic causal inference mistakes
- I hattttttttteeeeeee to tell you how absolutely prevalent this form of data grifting is. We are in an era of data grifting around how people talk about interventions specifically
