{"id":3141,"date":"2011-05-02T06:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/198b643118921093"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:12:11","slug":"much-easier-way-to-understand-the-concepts-antifragility-as-positive-skewness-fragility-as-negative-skewness-we-can-see-how-hidden-risks-and-iatrogenics-are-fragile-technic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/much-easier-way-to-understand-the-concepts-antifragility-as-positive-skewness-fragility-as-negative-skewness-we-can-see-how-hidden-risks-and-iatrogenics-are-fragile-technic\/","title":{"rendered":"Much easier way to understand the concepts: Antifragility as &quot;positive skewness&quot;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much easier way to understand the concepts: Antifragility as &#8220;positive skewness&#8221;, fragility as &#8220;negative skewness&#8221;. We can see how hidden risks and iatrogenics are fragile.<br \/>(Technical: a convex payoff (on a random variable) implies positively skewed distribution, a concave payoff the opposite).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10150184505858375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc6\/222630_10150184505858375_13012333374_6882248_2607825_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much easier way to understand the concepts: Antifragility as &#8220;positive skewness&#8221;, fragility as &#8220;negative skewness&#8221;. We can see how hidden risks and iatrogenics are fragile.(Technical: a convex payoff (on a random variable) implies positively skewed dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}