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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas; Ochman, Joe is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes . Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls "antifragile" is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and

Who reads Why Most Published Research Findings Are False?

Author

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas; Ochman, Joe

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group;Random House;Books on Tape

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739370704

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Self Help

Rating

4.05 / 5 (16,843 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14