Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

1) A reader asked me to scrutinize the paper below claiming that wealth increases longevity. Well... While true, cigarette smoking has ~21 times the effect of wealth on longevity. And being a female ~4 times. Statistical evidence != weakness of effect. https://t.co/k4uYNNKUYJ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 6, 2021

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2) However they define wealth as one standard deviation apart. This does not say anything about the tails where MOST of the wealth is located. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 6, 2021