Editing Fooled by Randomness (section)

==Reaction==
The book was selected by ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' as one of the 75 "Smartest Books of All Time."<ref>{{cite web|last=Useem|first=Jerry|title=The Smartest Books We Know|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/03/21/8254826/index.htm|publisher=Fortune|date=21 March 2005}}</ref> ''[[USA Today|U.S.A Today]]'' recounted that many criticisms raised in this book of the financial industry turned out to be justified.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mouton|first=Andre|title=Does big data have us 'fooled by randomness'?|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/19/big-data-random-facebook-nsa-linkedin/2670667/|access-date=28 August 2013|newspaper=U.S.A Today|date=19 August 2013}}</ref> ''[[Forbes]]'' described the book as being playful, self-effacing and at times insufferably arrogant, but always thought-provoking.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sizemore|first=Charles|title=Nassim Taleb's 'Antifragile' Celebrates Randomness In People, Markets|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2013/01/23/nassim-talebs-antifragile-celebrates-randomness-in-people-markets/|access-date=28 August 2013|newspaper=Forbes.com|date=23 January 2013}}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (one of the publications which receives more favourable comments in this book) said that the book was to conventional [[Wall Street]] wisdom what [[Martin Luther]]’s [[The Ninety-Five Theses|ninety-nine ''[sic]''  theses]] were to the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite news|title=Book review : Fooled by randomness|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/22/blowing-up|access-date=24 August 2020|newspaper=The New Yorker}}</ref>