Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

When I am trolled by >1000 pple for a thread, someone is PAYING to hide something (NFL ?). It isn't just that professional athletes have > mortality than amateurs: they do worse than couch potatoes. Studies s.a. below fail to condition on genetics; miss the survivorship bias. https://t.co/qTZ3016ebA — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 21, 2022

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Posted Jan. 21, 2022

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2) The story: "If you run marathons you do better than a couch potato but worse than a moderately fit person". No. Compare those who run marathons to couch potatoes w/the genetics that make them capable of running marathons BUT are couch potatoes. Science/Statistics is hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 21, 2022