Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 2005 · 86,900 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets to read?
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Finance and probability vocabulary alongside classical allusion.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Digressive sentences that break off into asides.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Probability handled through stories rather than mathematics, but the ideas stay abstract.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Moderate, with a lot of digression.
How Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is regarded
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets holds a literary regard score of 55 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.