Fooled by randomness: the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable [Book].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Penguin, 2009Edition: Combined edDescription: 20 cmISBN:- 9780141047065
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Fooled By Randomness: Pt. I. Solon's Warning - Skewness, Asymmetry, Induction -- 1. If You're So Rich Why Aren't You So Smart? -- 2. A Bizarre Accounting Method -- 3. A Mathematical Meditation on History -- 4. Randomness, Nonsense, and the Scientific Intellectual -- 5. Survival of the Least Fit - Can Evolution Be Fooled by Randomness? -- 6. Skewness and Asymmetry -- 7. The Problem of Induction -- Pt. II. Monkeys on Typewriters - Survivorship and Other Biases -- 8. Too Many Millionaires Next Door -- 9. It Is Easier To Buy and Sell Than Fry an Egg -- 10. Loser Takes All - On the Nonlinearities of Life -- 11. Randomness and Our Brain: We Are Probability Blind -- Pt. III. Wax in my Ears - Living With Randomitis -- 12. Gamblers' Ticks and Pigeons in a Box -- 13. Carneades Comes to Rome: On Probability and Skepticism -- 14. Bacchus Abandons Antony -- Epilogue: Solon Told You So -- About Texere. The Black Swan: Pt. I. Solon's Warning - Skewness, Asymmetry, Induction -- 1. If You're So Rich Why Aren't You So Smart? -- 2. A Bizarre Accounting Method -- 3. A Mathematical Meditation on History -- 4. Randomness, Nonsense, and the Scientific Intellectual -- 5. Survival of the Least Fit - Can Evolution Be Fooled by Randomness? -- 6. Skewness and Asymmetry -- 7. The Problem of Induction -- Pt. II. Monkeys on Typewriters - Survivorship and Other Biases -- 8. Too Many Millionaires Next Door -- 9. It Is Easier To Buy and Sell Than Fry an Egg -- 10. Loser Takes All - On the Nonlinearities of Life -- 11. Randomness and Our Brain: We Are Probability Blind -- Pt. III. Wax in my Ears - Living With Randomitis -- 12. Gamblers' Ticks and Pigeons in a Box -- 13. Carneades Comes to Rome: On Probability and Skepticism -- 14. Bacchus Abandons Antony -- Epilogue: Solon Told You So -- About Texere.
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