There is a relatively uninteresting story in The New York Times today. Or, at least, it's a story that's been told before. Long-standing people in an industry are getting annoyed by an outsider who's trying to change the way they do things with a scary new tool: statistics. It's seemingly happening everywhere, and that it's now happening in Hollywood—a place where "making money" is pretty high on the list of priorities—isn't all that surprising. This is how it works: A chain-smoking former statistics professor named Vinny Bruzzese—“the reigning mad scientist of Hollywood,” in ... Read More
