Why Laws Break When Context Changes

Why Laws Break When Context Changes

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 29 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Laws break when context changes because they're context-dependent. Diversification reduces risk in stable markets but fails in correlated crises.

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What was corrected

What the page claimed

Article cited the wrong institutional affiliation for a real researcher at the time of a specific publication, and added a causal explanation not confirmed by the paper itself.

What was corrected

Corrected the affiliation to Ioannidis's real 2005-era institutions and replaced the unsupported causal explanation with the paper's actual stated reasoning.

Why this is better

The James March 1991 Organization Science citation and the Gordon Guyatt/McMaster evidence-based-medicine citation in the same article both verified as fully accurate; the combined 32 percent figure is a correct (if unstated-as-such) sum of the paper's real 16 percent contradicted plus 16 percent weakened findings.

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