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LSE public lecture
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 the former Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb | talks |
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Date and Time: |
13 October 2008 at 7:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics |
Organised by: |
London School of Economics & Political Science |
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Tickets: |
Free |
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