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Comment on Mitigated speech and disaster avoidance by abby, the hacker chick blog

abby, the hacker chick blog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:50:47 +0000

Thanks for the callout. Outliers is an *amazing* book (for this and so many other fascinating tales), highly recommended!

Comment on About by Cyrus

Cyrus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:59:46 +0000

You might find the following brief study on stock returns interesting. It touches on survivorship bias and randomness in ways not normally discussed.

http://michaelcovel.com/pdfs/TrendingStocksDriveTheMarket.pdf

http://systematicrelativestrength.com/2009/06/02/the-minority-that-matter/

Comment on The subprime gray swan by All hail Nassim Nicholas Taleb! « Oi Shibi! Anime Blog

All hail Nassim Nicholas Taleb! « Oi Shibi! Anime Blog — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:48:45 +0000

[...] who i wasn’t exactly fond of due to his doglike devotion to Luna (who turns out to be the ‘gray Swan’ of this series), says the following as he dies trying to protect Luna (as if she needs any [...]

Comment on Survivor Bias in Log Cabins by Michael Graham Richard

Michael Graham Richard — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:13:03 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the link.

I had no idea that a whole blog was dedicated to Survivor Bias. Sounds interesting, I’ll read the archives.

Comment on Good to not so great? by Spolsky on Survivor Bias « Survivor Bias

Spolsky on Survivor Bias « Survivor Bias — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:54:11 +0000

[...] wrote on this topic earlier in “Beware advice from the successful” and “Good to Not so great“. Startups fail for lots of reasons, they also succeed for lots of reasons and what worked [...]

Comment on Beware advice from the successful by Spolsky on Survivor Bias « Survivor Bias

Spolsky on Survivor Bias « Survivor Bias — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:24:42 +0000

[...] wrote on this topic earlier in “Beware advice from the successful“. Startups fail for lots of reasons, they also succeed for lots of reasons and what worked [...]

Comment on Literal Survivor Bias by More Literal Survivor Bias from Car Talk Puzzler « Survivor Bias

More Literal Survivor Bias from Car Talk Puzzler « Survivor Bias — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:10:02 +0000

[...] in our previous example of this (which also involved world war II pilots…), the problem is that they are only interviewing [...]

Comment on What is survivor bias? by True Love « eleven minutes

True Love « eleven minutes — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:03:55 +0000

[...] Mind you, this is 10% of the couples of stayed together for 20 years, which is quite a bit of a survivor bias! [...]

Comment on Literal Survivor Bias by bajames

bajames — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:22:58 +0000

The best I could find was this excerpt from Probability and Statistical inference – see the excerpt here

The book might have a legitimate source for the anecdote.

Comment on Literal Survivor Bias by Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:42:53 +0000

Does nayone have any factual back up for the bomber story noted here?