AW: AW: [HSF] Acute dissection - what now?- Robert Goetz-History of Cardi...

[Tea Acuff]

I don't know the book, but it would be interesting to see his insight. Is this an argument from medicine or a different field?
I can think of several story lines with this juxtaposition. I missed your point with your previous "black swan" comment. Suppose it was Bobtea speak.

It is an interesting thing about the rough edge or outliers particularly in small groups of less than a few thousand as in case in medicine. Sometimes they are just a runt of the litter. More often, however, when we pull on that loose thread of the beautifully constructed coat of theory, we find that the coat is not what it appears to be. It is made of something entirely different from its apparent structure, and what we saw and were admiring was mostly pattern and imagination. If we are lucky that string is not a runt, but a black swan which leads us to a completely different world as in world of down under. When I was in Australia I thought it would be like Texas since they speak English (mostly) and love the rough and open outdoors, but everything was different there from the vegetation to the animals to the things in their minds.

tea

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Tea and Ani,
There is a book that both of you will find interesting and of some  relevance 
to our dilemmas:
The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb

Bob



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