http://www.stevemarlowe.net/archives/232 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:34:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.stevemarlowe.net/archives/232#comment-3980 Teaching on The Finance World For News and Information Around The World On Finance » black swans & other matters Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:38:27 +0000 http://www.stevemarlowe.net/archives/232#comment-3980 [...] black swans & other matters black swans & other matters February 14 10:54 am The Black Swan’s author may have at last given postmodernism something to hang its hat on. In particular, Taleb puts forth the notion that narrative-in-science, i.e., bell curves, misunderstood probability theory, confusing no-evidence and evidence-of-no, etc., lead to mass delusions regarding risk and leave us all with great big fat blind spots that cause us to be fleeced, killed or impoverished. Science is nothing more than a way of knowin [...] […] black swans & other matters black swans & other matters February 14 10:54 am The Black Swan’s author may have at last given postmodernism something to hang its hat on. In particular, Taleb puts forth the notion that narrative-in-science, i.e., bell curves, misunderstood probability theory, confusing no-evidence and evidence-of-no, etc., lead to mass delusions regarding risk and leave us all with great big fat blind spots that cause us to be fleeced, killed or impoverished. Science is nothing more than a way of knowin […]

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