2007-11-19 02:11:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I'm guessing it has something to do with Michael Jackson.
2007-11-19 02:13:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Nassim Nicholas Taleb's definition, a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as black swans—"undirected" and unpredicted. The September 11, 2001 attacks are often referred to as a Black Swan event.
The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. The 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass.
Karl Popper first used the black swan narrative to discuss falsification, a fact that Taleb's work acknowledges
2007-11-19 10:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist.
2007-11-19 10:15:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A theory on black swans.
2007-11-19 10:14:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋