Standard social science approaches to probability are either 1) at best severely incomplete (enough to be unusable), 2) inadequate, or 3) not even wrong. The presentation shows the problems of probability and the various distortions we encounter in real life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. He is a former mathematical trader and is Distinguished professor of risk engineering, NYU polytechnic institute.

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