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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients — and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 10 “The Scandal of Prediction” (2007)
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Topics: cumulative error, error, events, outlandishness, outliers, prediction, surprise
More quotes by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas Normal is the average of deviance.
Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944) American author, playwright
Venus Envy, ch. 21 (1993)
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Topics: average, deviance, deviation, meme, normalcy, normality, outliers, perversity
More quotes by Brown, Rita Mae The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian
Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796)
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Topics: generality, likelihood, occurrence, outliers, particular, probability, specifics
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