Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
How the Lognormal is in fact a treacherous distribution: monstrously fat-tailed at \sigma >1. Explains why the debates on whether a dist is lognormal or powerlaw are "academic" in the worst sense of the word. (debates Mandelbrot/Gibrat, critique of Barabasi by Clauset) https://t.co/Cr2FobJ2VM — PolitiTweet.org