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Thanksgiving Day Chart


From the turkey's perspective, this was unexpected. Sometimes you just can't use past observed data - even a lot of it - to project future events:

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I obviously can't take credit for this brilliant chart: the idea comes from Nicholas Nassim Taleb's brilliant book, The Black Swan. Taleb himself got the idea from Bertrand Russell's analysis of a chicken.