When Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed his popular theory to explore way-out-of-the-norm surprising events, he outlined three characteristics of a black swan event:
- The event has a huge impact
- The event is very hard to explain using (commonly used) scientific methods
- The event appears unforeseen due to people’s psychological biases.
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