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What does this have to do with black swans?


8 posted on 04/24/2007 9:39:14 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Until Val Kilmer made "The Saint", the phrase "The Roger Moore one was better" was never used)
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the rare but pivotal events that characterize life in the power-law world. He calls them Black Swans, after the philosopher Karl Popper’s observation that only a single black swan is required to falsify the theory that “all swans are white” even when there are thousands of white swans in evidence.


9 posted on 04/24/2007 10:22:37 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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