Fooled by randomness - if u have brains of an engineer u will love this shit ! first of all this isnt a book review because i think i don't stand anywhere on this subject to write a review sort of thing (me too being victim of randomness and accepting things as they are presented ,,not questioning much) . the author goes far beyond bookish probability theories and his hardcore skeptic nature just reflects on each and every page . his idea behind the book is to tease those who take their knowledge and its quality too seriously. topics like survivor ship bias , monkeys on typewriters , how we are probability blind by default and many more openly challenge what u knew up till now .
i admit that i dint understand some of his ideas not because i wasn't convinced but that he is strongly against empiricism and i am surrounded by people who take "past data" too seriously.
i recently got my hands on a book called " SUPER freakonomics " which takes past DATA too seriously . while the authors use one whole chpt. to convince their readers why they are talking so much statistics ,, if u read this book first then "fooled by randomness" u will be highly disappointed(maybe ur past whole month went in vein so better go other way round)
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