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Le Hasard Sauvage : Comment la chance nous trompe
Carine Chichereau, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.92 AVERAGE
390 reviews for:
Le Hasard Sauvage : Comment la chance nous trompe
Carine Chichereau, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.92 AVERAGE
This book had a lot of interesting ideas about randomness, probability, and making sense of the world around you. However, the author's voice came across as so smug that it was extremely hard to read, and the book as a whole seemed disorganized and hard to follow. Additionally, his lack of follow-through is pretty frustrating. He spends 90% of the time excoriating those who make these mistakes, and then skims past his recommendations of how to avoid them. I, at least, was expecting something more. I think Taleb had some strong points and interesting insights into some of the common mistakes we make as humans; being too proud, stubborn, or arrogant to write a cohesive book is another one, though.
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So he does warn the reader in the prologue that this book will essentially be an opinion piece since he says something like statistics require logic to support them but not necessarily the inverse and I refrain from using any information in the book that required any research and isn't from the front of my mind.
For those new to this concept of how big of a role randomness plays in everyday life perhaps this book is a good introduction. Otherwise I would not recommend it.
Having recently read Robert Shiller's Irrational Exuberance which is chock-full of charts and graphs to support his claims of essentially market randomness and almost unexplainable behavior economics, I closed out of Fooled by Randomness after the first chapter. If you want to learn and not just be vindicated in your beliefs, I recommend looking elsewhere like Shiller's book.
For those new to this concept of how big of a role randomness plays in everyday life perhaps this book is a good introduction. Otherwise I would not recommend it.
Having recently read Robert Shiller's Irrational Exuberance which is chock-full of charts and graphs to support his claims of essentially market randomness and almost unexplainable behavior economics, I closed out of Fooled by Randomness after the first chapter. If you want to learn and not just be vindicated in your beliefs, I recommend looking elsewhere like Shiller's book.
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One of the best books I have read in my lifetime. The Incerto series by NNT isn't a book series rather a thematic essay. Most of the book is a commentary on various biases we humans have which makes us believe that we are in control of the situation especially in case of stock markets, but we clearly aren't. An amazing study in Survivorship Bias. My favourite part of the book is definitely on that. The study of Market Fools is another great one and I totally can relate to it now.
Overall a must read for anyone looking to break free from the vicious loop of Business Strategy and Self Help Books. Very few people recommend NNT's books which is a shame as this guy is totally upfront and true to the bone.
Overall a must read for anyone looking to break free from the vicious loop of Business Strategy and Self Help Books. Very few people recommend NNT's books which is a shame as this guy is totally upfront and true to the bone.
This book was interesting. It discusses luck and randomness, probabilities, etc.