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[Anonymous No.15098766]

So, then what is the best book for the layman to understand statistics?

[Anonymous No.15098785]

>>15098766
taleb is going to die while incoherently mumbling through his dementia the words 'fat tails'

[Anonymous No.15098803]

>>15098785
someone should draw a portrait of Taleb in traditional Arabic dress, but with a fat tail attached

[Anonymous No.15098821]

>>15098785
But he's right. Thanks to coronavirus, I have had to explain fat tails to numerous people because they don't understand that they are comparing a multiplicative fat-tailed process in Extremistan in the subexponential class to a thin-tailed process, particularly one that has Chernoff bounds from Mediocristan.
>>15098803
Mr. Taleb is not Arab. He is Phoenician.

[Anonymous No.15098869]

Taleb says to understand probability first.

[Anonymous No.15098972]

>>15098766

You just add all the numbers up and divide by the number of numbers.

[Anonymous No.15099028]

>>15098766
>>layman
>>statistics
Might as well ask how a layman can understand mathematics. You have to make yourself not a layman.

[Anonymous No.15099156]

>>15098766
statistics for dummies

[Anonymous No.15099188]

>>15098766
First you must learn probability theory, stochastic variables, stochastic calculus, bayesian probabilities. You should learn the probability distributions. You need to learn these things to understand the normal distribution which is used a lot in statistics and econometrics.

just get som uni textbooks on probability and statistics.

[Anonymous No.15099189]

>>15098821
Maybe in his larping dreams. He has no physical resemblance to Phoenicians.

[Anonymous No.15099213]

>>15099188
it is a struggle to learn, and if you're not going to use this skill for studies or your job, you are probably going to give up

[Anonymous No.15099223]

>>15098821
>Lebanese parents

[Anonymous No.15099226]

>>15099189
Lebanese are literally direct descendants of the Phoenicians. Also, funny you say that he has no physical resemblance to Phoenicians but continue to call him an Arab despite him looking nothing like one.

[Anonymous No.15099281]

>>15099226
>talking about Phoenicians thousands of years later
He’s an arab in the same sense Moroccans and Egyptians and Libyan are arabs. Maybe not technically since they aren’t gulf arabs but still broadly “arab”. Not all arabs are dark olive skinned and hooked nose btw anon that’s just primarily the gulf

[Anonymous No.15099324]

>>15099223
Lebanese are direct descendants of Phoenicians.
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(17)30276-8
>>15099281
>He’s an arab in the same sense Moroccans and Egyptians and Libyan are arabs
North Africans aren't Arab, you Panarabist imbecile.

[Anonymous No.15099339]

>>15098766
How to Lie with Statistics

V.good and you can read the whole thing in a day

[Anonymous No.15099512]

>>15099324
Okay go ask any North African if they’re Arabic or not
>mfw some western faggot tries to lecture on me racial and identity dynamics in the Arab world