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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by coldtea on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:27AM (#18705238)
>Saying "this is not something their readers follow suit on" - only if you're a reader who doesn't understand probability

Isn't that the very readership they capitalize on?

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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:23AM (#18705969)
As said he tries to help his readership understand how probability works, but in the end one may still ethically do business in one's chosen field without having to solve the problems of understanding the limits of that field for those uneducated in it.

on edit: grammar was atrocious, still bad now.

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