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As for the article, I have not yet read it but it is very difficult not to be "fooled by randomness", tautologous or biased by survivorship.

Can you Beat the Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Burchfield refers to “Where are you at?” as a tautologous regional usage.

2008 August « Motivated Grammar 2008

Burchfield refers to “Where are you at?” as a tautologous regional usage.

Where are you (at)? « Motivated Grammar 2008

Here was the tautologous circuitry of the art market in miniature.

Lawrence, a letter and me 2010

Only when that context has been eliminated might we justifiably condemn a usage as tautologous also as well.

On also, too DC 2009

Only when that context has been eliminated might we justifiably condemn a usage as tautologous also as well.

Archive 2009-04-01 DC 2009

So it's back to the mundane quotidian everyday world of composing tautologous adjectival lists and finding new ways of chatting innocuously with my cockney neighbors about the rain without openly addressing the fact that London will be mostly underwater by 2012.

Nick Revell: My Summer Break 2009

The suggestion was that even apparently tautologous sentences, like

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

In part, it is tautologous: At the battle of Borodino Napoleon shot at no one and killed no one.

Tolstoy and the Great Man Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

"Want" and "desire" are real, and there is a survival advantage to organisms with a desire to live as tautologous as that sounds, but the process of evolution itself does not require it.

Function follows form doyle 2009