Cherry-picking has optionality: the one telling the story (… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Cherry-picking has optionality: the one telling the story (and publishing it) has the advantage of being able to show the confirmatory examples and completely ignore the rest — and the more volatility and dispersion, the rosier the best story will be (and the darker the worst story).

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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