Showing posts with label survivorship bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label survivorship bias. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2013

Quote of the Day: Experience is a continuous exit exam

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Experience is not much of a teacher; it is, rather, a continuous exit exam. For we are not very good at "learning" from events. ...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

The Myth of the Surveillance Cameras

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Mainstream media continues to inculcate upon the public of the supposed public safety expediencies from surveillance cameras. Steve Cha...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

Video: The Power of the Undervalued $10 Trillion Informal Economy

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Author Robert Neuwirth of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy makes a great talk at the TED anent the vastly underr...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Seen and Unseen

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If one-sidedness is the other side of literature’s emphatic concreteness, emphatic awareness of strangers’ pains and pleasures is the une...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Markets Ignore US SEC-Goldman Sachs Tiff, More Political Dirty Dancing

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``Popular opinion ascribes all these evils to the capitalistic system. As a remedy for the undesirable effects of interventionism they ask...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Survivorship Bias: A Great Musician Plays Great Music But No One Hears

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What happens if one of the best musicians popped up at a corridor of a stereotyped arcade unannounced, garbed in a nondescript attire (to a...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

Swine Flu: The Black Swan That Wasn’t

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``There is only one thing which causes man to look for and to organize a tool which is an instrument of compulsion and prohibition. That thi...
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