Fooled by Randomness

By Peter Taylor. 2012

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d790836e72528039db912eefc9b7b91a4e630d5e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Duncan J. Watts
2. Peter Sheridan Dodds
3. Mark Newman
4. Jure Leskovec
5. Jon M. Kleinberg
6. Kristina Lerman
7. Matthew J. Salganik
8. Remco van der Hofstad

Citations in the corpus

• Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation (background): “Indeed, because the outcome is already known, it is always possible to construct what looks like a causal story by picking out some of the defining details of the individuals in ques-tion—even when success is completely random (Taleb 2001).”