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Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Understanding Shadows: Mean and Market Behavior

This chapter examines market behavior through the lens of statistical distributions, focusing on the shadow mean and the differences between thin-tailed and fat-tailed distributions. It underscores the importance of recognizing extreme events in historical data, with implications across various fields such as finance and warfare.

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