Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Almost Everything In Social Life Is Produced By Rare But Consequential Shocks And Jumps; All The While Almost Everything Studied About Social Life Focuses On The "normal," Particularly With "bell Curve" Methods Of Inference That Tell You Close To Nothing. Why? Because The Bell Curve Ignores Large Deviations, Cannot Handle Them, Yet Makes Us Confident That We Have Tamed Uncertainty. Its Nickname In This Book Is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.

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