Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 2018 · 74,800 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life to read?
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life scores 55 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, probability and classical allusion.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Digressive sentences that break into asides.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Ethical argument handled through heuristics and stories.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate, with heavy digression.
How Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life is regarded
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life holds a literary regard score of 45 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.