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The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Wetenschap & Natuur
  • ISBN: 9780812973815
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Inhoud
Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:11 mei 2010
Aantal pagina's:444
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hoofdauteur:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Vertaling
Originele titel:Black Swan
Character
Personage:Harry Potter
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Editie:2
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:133 mm
Product hoogte:32 mm
Product lengte:197 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:134 mm
Verpakking hoogte:41 mm
Verpakking lengte:203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:928 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:2
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:133 mm
Product hoogte:32 mm
Product lengte:197 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:134 mm
Verpakking hoogte:41 mm
Verpakking lengte:203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:928 g

Samenvatting

The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we dont know, now with a new section called On Robustness and Fragility. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. the astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 911. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we dont know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the impossible. For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, the Black Swan is a landmark bookitself a black swan.