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Tue Jan 12 07:31:18 +0000 2021

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @RichmanRonald: The next session of the Global Technical Incerto Meetup: Session 1 - Introduction by @nntaleb https://t.co/HXvElBXlvQ… — PolitiTweet.org

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5) MOVING TARGET Smelled a rat when some started invoking Benford's Law to claim election fraud. They did not DETECT fraud, but starting from a prior of fraud, looked for confirmation misusing BL. After BL was debunked they looked for other arguments. https://t.co/bkROUgD0qS — PolitiTweet.org

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@flaneurizer @nntaleb I think that people who see that election fraud might have occurred are getting bent out of s… https://t.co/Pv2oRhjWMp

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You can see the problem with: + Distributions: economists & statisticians have no consciousness that the Gaussian is a special case & can't handle the more general. + "Correlation" is special to linear association & people think it is "evidence based". + "Sharpe ratio", factor... — PolitiTweet.org

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