An edition of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2005)

The black swan

the impact of the highly improbable

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An edition of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2005)

The black swan

the impact of the highly improbable

2nd ed.

by , , , and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (27 ratings) ·
  • 240 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 42 Have read

Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
444

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Ereignis, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2010-05-09, Prévision, New York Times bestseller, Business, Social aspects, Philosophy, Informationstheorie, Teoria da informação (aspectos sociais), Prognose, Incertitude (Théorie de l'information), Aspect social, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Forecasting, Probability, Uncertainty (Information theory), Social aspects of Uncertainty (Information theory), Ungewissheit, Sozialpsychologie, Nonfiction, New York Times reviewed, Informationsteori, Uncertainty (information theory)--social aspects, Incertitude (théorie de l'information)--aspect social, Q375 .t35 2010, 003/.54

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Table of Contents

Prologue
Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd
We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict?
Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony
The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan
Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans
Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible.

Edition Notes

Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form by Random House in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-429) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
003/.54
Library of Congress
Q375 .T35 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 444 p. :
Number of pages
444

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24567743M
ISBN 10
081297381X
ISBN 13
9780812973815
LCCN
2010292618
OCLC/WorldCat
213400968

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Work Description

From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.

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June 29, 2021 Edited by LeadSongDog Edited without comment.
March 2, 2021 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
June 3, 2013 Edited by Bryan L. Fordham Added new cover
January 3, 2011 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record