![]() ![]() I thus had less of a hard time reading it in the metro (took me less than a week!), despite the author’s aggravating style using small facts, key figures and personal introspections to advance one’s theory. The style is however both less egocentric than The Black Swan and more scientific in that those “fooled by randomness” mostly are those not accounting for randomness, rather than those using (inadequate) random models as in The Black Swan. From the prologue, “this book has two purposes: to defend science (…) and to attack the scientist when he strays from his course” which sounds fairly ambitious a priori and not achieved a posteriori. Obviously, after being put off by The Black Swan, I started Fooled by Randomness with a strong bias, not helped by the fact that the book is written in almost exactly the same infuriating style, with endless repetitions and ceaseless discursions. “Why do I want everybody to learn some statistics?” (p.215)Īfter reading and commenting on The Black Swan, I decided to spend the lavish stipend provided by my Associate gains on Amazon on Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, in connection with another positive review by Andrew Gelman. ![]()
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