From Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty:
The collective useable expertise of all the people at the WH correspondent’s dinner is lower than what you find in a single plumber, pastry chef, railroad engineer, or car mechanic with mufflers & exhaust systems subspecialty.#skininthegame pic.twitter.com/s86LasFoGc
The man has incredible insight.
i think he gives the correspondents more intelligence than they have, overshooting the mark a bit