Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
More evidence that 1) @sapinker is ignorant of statistics, 2) is dishonest about it. [Such reasoning (not the unethical part) is called the "Pinker Problem" in Stat Consequences of Fat Tails] — PolitiTweet.org
Steven Pinker @sapinker
The two world wars were spikes, not harbingers of a trend. Since end of WWII, death rates have roller-coastered dow… https://t.co/HJMfQjMXjL