1) Look at head statistician from the Royal Society promoting that BS. No, the 2 variables are NOT comparable statistically. Your lawnmower is not trying to kill you. @DrCirillo and I aim to put an end to this in our book.
Category: BS Busting
Correction: 99.99% for journalism.
How to use statistics to produce BS. Total BS. 1)Terrorism is fat-tailed 2) Terrorism is low BECAUSE we fight it.
“Mr T, I like your work but you call too many pple fraudsters” Me: “There are many fraudsters”
Just in case you want more example that historians are bullshitters. 2) The mechanism is historian cite historian cite historian, with a weird chain, as Indians say Salma told Sabrina. All over hist of wars.
War data are pulled out of the hat. Historians are only reliable for (some) anecdotes. Or as we saw with Mary Beard, good at bu***tting.Practically all data prior to the first war are suspicious. Historians mistake an upper/lower bound for an absolute date. For instance “earliest settlement found” for earliest settlement” 4) Historians have no clue about survivorship bias, so they mistake visible properties for properties. 5) Historians ignore asymmetries. 6) You can do history but one needs to qualify conclusions & exclude some class of statements.
Klueless Massimo “expert” in Stoic virtues s.a. courage. Like nuns “experts” in sexual positions. If you don’t take risk, STFU abt courage. Academia/journos are nice housebroken submissive dogs. By collectivelly going against me they didn’t realize they need to fight a wolf.
“Mr Taleb,I don’t always agree w/you,but..” Me:”Can you 1st tell me what you disagree with,sthing concrete?” “I’ll get back to you on that”
Academia/journos are nice housebroken submissive dogs. By collectivelly going against me they didn’t realize they need to fight a wolf.
A. Tversky once said he didn’t care about *artificial intelligence*,he studied *natural stupidity*. I prefer to study *artificial stupidy*. Artificial stupidity comes w/ overriding the Lindy-compatible in favor of some bias invented by some ignorant nerd like @r_thaler
