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N N Taleb
Personal blog · fooledbyrandomnessdotcom.wordpress.commathdatascience
N N Taleb's personal blog at fooledbyrandomnessdotcom.wordpress.com covers math, data and science. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Flaws in the Danish Mask Study”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the Covid science debate as Taleb's commentary on a study's conclusions, with the commenter pointing to his Twitter feed for more. Commenters value it as a source of argument on that study.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mathematical flaneuring, almost always probability
Most-linked posts?
- The Flaws in the Danish Mask Study2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Taleb has been going pretty hard all week on how that study doesn't demonstrate what certain people really, really want it to demonstrate: https://fooledbyrandomnessdotcom.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/hy... Check out his Twitter feed for more.
Comment linking /2020/11/25/hypothesis-testing-in-the-presence-of-false-positives-the-flaws-in-the-danish-mask-study/
on “The Covid Science Wars”Submitted The “Bitcoin, Currencies and Bubbles” Paper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Probability error in medicine (Golden Ratio) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flaws in the Danish Mask Study as a story · 1 points
HN discussion