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Taleb is unreadable. I have to wipe my forehead of the vituperative spittle after every paragraph. Cosma Shalizi has a much better critique, although it too ha
by scarmig 8y ago
Taleb is unreadable. I have to wipe my forehead of the vituperative spittle after every paragraph.
Cosma Shalizi has a much better critique, although it too has some flaws: http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
- war1025 8y agoI've largely stopped following Taleb, mainly because he seems to have taken "don't be a pushover" and misconstrued it to mean "be an ass". He has some good points though.
- icebraining 8y agoI find him much less of an ass in interviews, at least those with Russ Roberts (of Econtalk), whom he likes.
- barry-cotter 8y agoIf by some flaws you mean the same logic proves barometric pressure does not exist. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/p_a_statistical_myth.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/p_a_statistical_myth... > Anyone following Nassim Taleb's dissembling on IQ lately has likely stumbled across an argument, originally created by Cosma Shalizi, which purports to show that the psychometric g is a statistical myth. But I realized that based on this argument, not only is psychometrics a deeply flawed science, but so is thermodynamics!