{"id":2860,"date":"2011-01-29T19:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/55dc2a4832b363d3"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:33:40","slug":"1-how-credible-and-attention-deserving-is-nassim-taleb-quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/1-how-credible-and-attention-deserving-is-nassim-taleb-quora\/","title":{"rendered":"(1) How credible and attention-deserving is Nassim Taleb? &#8211; Quora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His two lay books,\u00a0<i>Fooled By Randomness<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Black Swan<\/i>, are only samples of his work. \u00a0If you want to judge him, read his technical book <i>Dynamic Hedging<\/i>, and his published papers, starting at SSRN.com:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/cf_dev\/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=475810\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/so<wbr>l3\/cf_d&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0(There are actually 14 papers total, but 6 aren&#39;t showing up on this page. \u00a0Search the main search field on <a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">SSRN.com<\/a> for &#8216;Taleb&#8217; for the complete list)<\/p>\n<p>His website also has a section on his scholarly work as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness<wbr>.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regarding his credibility in academia, besides Terry Tao&#39;s informal endorsement (or whatever you consider Terry&#39;s static sidebar link to Taleb&#39;s main non-book work to be), the late\u00a0Berkeley\u00a0statisticia<wbr>n David Freedman\u00a0also commented in a posthumously published paper that &quot;efforts by statisticians to refute Taleb proved unconvincing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_A._Freedman_(statistician)\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w<wbr>iki\/Dav&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His two lay books,\u00a0Fooled By Randomness\u00a0and\u00a0The Black Swan, are only samples of his work. \u00a0If you want to judge him, read his technical book Dynamic Hedging, and his published papers, starting at SSRN.com:http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/cf_d&#8230;\u00a0(There&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}