utorok 26. januára 2010

The Trouble with History

The Trouble with History: "

Good quote from Taleb:

It is particularly shocking that people do what is called “stress tests” by taking the worst possible past deviation as an anchor event to project the worst possible future deviation, not thinking that they would have failed to account for such deviation had they used the same method on the day before that past anchor event. [Emphasis mine]

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