[ChrisLomont]

>You either have evidence or you don't. This quasi economic modeling of chess players is ridiculous

Modeling provides the best evidence in all aspects of life (design, science, invention, marketing, medicine, ....). All human knowledge is built in modeling and statistical evidence. Nothing is 100% certain except mathematics, and even that is often fuzzier than 100%.

So how is modeling yet another thing ridiculous when it provides empirically the best methods in so many other domains?