Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder: Difference between revisions

*Reliance on data causes severe side effects. The proportion of spuriousness in the data increases as you get more data. Data is toxic and in large quantities. It is infinitely narratisable. The more you have the more easily narratisable.  

*The more frequently you look at data  –  the more immersed in it you get  –  the lower the signal to noise ratio. Annual stock prices tell you more than weekly, tell you more than daily, tell you more thsn hourly.  

74  –  he who is without sin is less reliable than he who has sinned once - and someone who has made a lot of (different) errors is more reliable than someone has made none, because he has more experience to go on.  <br>