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Book Summary
Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and
the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most
situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical
uncertainty for which historical data provide no useful guidance to future
outcomes. Radical uncertainty concerns events whose determinants are
insufficiently understood for probabilities to be known or forecasting possible.
Before President Barack Obama made the fateful decision to send in the Navy
Seals, his advisers offered him wildly divergent estimates of the odds that
Osama bin Laden would be in the Abbottabad compound. In 2000, no one--not least
Steve Jobs--knew what a smartphone
ISBN-13
9781324004776
Language
English
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company
Publishing Date
2020-03-17
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and
the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most
situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical
uncertainty for which historical data provide no useful guidance to future
outcomes. Radical uncertainty concerns events whose determinants are
insufficiently understood for probabilities to be known or forecasting possible.
Before President Barack Obama made the fateful decision to send in the Navy
Seals, his advisers offered him wildly divergent estimates of the odds that
Osama bin Laden would be in the Abbottabad compound. In 2000, no one--not least
Steve Jobs--knew what a smartphone