
Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
The Joe Walker Podcast
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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