{"id":6446,"date":"2013-12-22T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2013-12-22T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:16:18","slug":"answer-to-quiz-the-extreme-is-not-an-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/answer-to-quiz-the-extreme-is-not-an-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate of the average.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming one can define happiness, a measure in the &#8220;tails&#8221;, that is the suicide rate, provides a near-random estimate of the average. Likewise counting the super-rich doesn&#8217;t give an idea of the wealth of a country. It is much more of a measure of inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Corollary: policies aiming at decreasing unhappiness should be treated as something independent from policies aiming at increasing happiness. (The *via negativa* argument).<\/p>\n<p>Note: I do not believe we know how to measure happiness, but we know how do deal with extreme unhappiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151921487953375&amp;id=13012333374\">Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to Quiz: The extreme is not an estimate of the average. Assuming one can define happiness, a measure in the &#8220;tails&#8221;, that is the suicide rate, provides a near-random estimate of the average. Likewise counting the super-rich doesn&#8217;t give an idea of the wealth of a country. It is much more of a measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}