Comments on: Book: Fooled by Randomness http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html Increasing Front Page Performance for Online Media Wed, 02 May 2012 17:54:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: VisualRevenue | Recency Bias in Web Analytics http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-439 VisualRevenue | Recency Bias in Web Analytics Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:17:39 +0000 http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-439 [...] (actually somewhat depressing though) is the one brought up by Nassim Nicholas Talib in his books Fooled by Randomness and in particular The Black Swan, where he concludes that we tend to focus on what we know, as [...] [...] (actually somewhat depressing though) is the one brought up by Nassim Nicholas Talib in his books Fooled by Randomness and in particular The Black Swan, where he concludes that we tend to focus on what we know, as [...]

]]> By: Dennis R. Mortensen http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-170 Dennis R. Mortensen Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:26:00 +0000 http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-170 Hi Jacques<br/><br/>I think we (You, Me and Karl Popper) can agree that a great deal of the “insight” we create as Web Analysts are not Science – as defined by the Falsifiability concept.<br/><br/>But what are we then ... Artists? :-)<br/>If so, then it is time to change my suit for something else.<br/><br/>Great input – thanks a lot for commenting. Hi Jacques

I think we (You, Me and Karl Popper) can agree that a great deal of the “insight” we create as Web Analysts are not Science – as defined by the Falsifiability concept.

But what are we then … Artists? :-)
If so, then it is time to change my suit for something else.

Great input – thanks a lot for commenting.

]]> By: Jacques Warren http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-169 Jacques Warren Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:43:00 +0000 http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-169 Totally agree. Although it is not that well written, that book has fired a lot of ideas and thoughts about marketing epistemology, and the type of knowledge we generate in Web analytics, i.e. is the knowledge we produce would stand the popperian test (not sure it would ;-))?<br/><br/>I look forward to reading the Black Swan, which I got, but haven,t had time to read. Totally agree. Although it is not that well written, that book has fired a lot of ideas and thoughts about marketing epistemology, and the type of knowledge we generate in Web analytics, i.e. is the knowledge we produce would stand the popperian test (not sure it would ;-))?

I look forward to reading the Black Swan, which I got, but haven,t had time to read.

]]> By: Dennis R. Mortensen http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-168 Dennis R. Mortensen Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:45:00 +0000 http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-168 Hi Michael...<br/><br/>I am half way through “The Black Swan”... which is one of those books you simply have to read twice (as he turns a lot more philosophical), and hell yeah.. I am up for that book club. All we need is a bookstore and a sitcom deal.. and were set :-)<br/><br/>Cheers Hi Michael…

I am half way through “The Black Swan”… which is one of those books you simply have to read twice (as he turns a lot more philosophical), and hell yeah.. I am up for that book club. All we need is a bookstore and a sitcom deal.. and were set :-)

Cheers

]]> By: Michael http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-167 Michael Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:22:00 +0000 http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/10/book-fooled-by-randomness.html#comment-167 Dennis,<br/><br/>I completely agree with you about this book. When you are done with "Fooled by Randomness", pick up "The Black Swan" by the same author. It goes into much more detail about how unpredictable events really are and how biased we all are.<br/><br/>Maybe we should start a book club ;-)<br/><br/>Best,<br/>Michael Whitaker Dennis,

I completely agree with you about this book. When you are done with “Fooled by Randomness”, pick up “The Black Swan” by the same author. It goes into much more detail about how unpredictable events really are and how biased we all are.

Maybe we should start a book club ;-)

Best,
Michael Whitaker

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