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Taleb argues that humans are "hardwired" to ignore Black Swans due to several psychological traps: Go to product viewer dialog for this item. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Taleb divides the world into two distinct domains to explain why traditional risk models fail: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas Der Schwarze Schwan (2...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s (German: Der Schwarze Schwan ) is a seminal work on randomness, probability, and the limitations of human knowledge. A "Black Swan" is defined as an event with three specific characteristics: it is an outlier (highly improbable based on past events), it has an extreme impact , and it is explained away in retrospect , as if it could have been predicted all along. The Core Thesis: "Mediocristan" vs. "Extremistan" Taleb argues that humans are "hardwired" to ignore