I was inspired by this post to write my own thoughts here about the decline of signaling models in finance and accounting…Ron Dye of Northwestern wrote a comment that alone is worth clicking on the link.

For humans, overcome bias is like overcoming oxygen dependency. It is fundamental to who we are.

Post-human is a really useful concept.

… an audience that finds them too implausible to believe, even when backed by such publications.

It seems to me that some pointers into the literature are just what your audience needs. You can hardly blame them for finding signaling explanations implausible when (i) humanity’s very nature blinds us to the signaling we’re doing, and (ii) they’re unaware of the data, and thus cannot update to where you’re at.

But it would help if signaling was considered before embarking on a search for brand new explanations. That is like reinventing the wheel, with corners.

Grammar:

“you” and “I” are objects of the preposition. Prescriptively, “I” should be “me” and the entire noun phrase could be reduced to “us.” Conversationally, nobody cares.

Jess, yes it can be hard to determine what causes what; all we can do is try.

Jaffa, I made it up, and may well have the grammar wrong.

“Between you and I, my friend, a handshake is enough.”

Where is that from? I have been looking at it for a couple of minutes and I’m pretty sure that grammatically it should be “Between you me, my friend, a handshake is enough.”

The handshake is the subject and “you” and “me” are just objects in the sentence, aren’t they?