Talk:The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

WTF?
This has got to be one of the worst articles I've ever come across on Wikipedia. It does not sound like it was written by someone who knows English very well, and it is not very factually informative about the book, its author, its critical reception, etc. It's just a lot of senseless babbling by someone who seems to have been very impressed by the book.70.150.21.209 (talk) 14:28, 17 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I have to agree: the main point that Taleb makes in the book is not even mentioned. Taleb says to be a black swan, an event must be “an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme ‘impact’. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.” 50.4.132.185 (talk) 14:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)