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A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 2]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Taking an Average, Let's Add Them Together

Taking an average, as in a mean, for example, makes sense. There are others where it doesn't make sense at all. A lot of people have the feeling that it's more scientific to ignore clinical er experience and clinical results ass they applie to an individuals. Infact, when i lookat they don't even understand their own statistics. That statistics only are making claims on aggregates,. So if i treat the aggregates as one patient, this is we gat to give em six. And also, i to tell you about when i want to talk about ism, forexample, racism is the same problemright? Let's assume.

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