“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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