Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Beware of economists. They are like doctors who treat the symptoms, not the dise…"
Beware of economists. They are like doctors who treat the symptoms, not the disease.
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"Never trust a statistician."
"The more data you have, the more likely you are to find spurious correlations."
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"Never trust a man who reads the newspaper to get information. Trust the one who reads it to find out what opinions are being pushed."
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.