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Buffett would bet on monkeys throwing darts to outperform financial advisers

9 points| coolhoody | 3 years ago |buffett.cnbc.com

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marbex7|3 years ago

Reminded of the discussion of survivorship bias in "Fooled By Randomness" (Taleb).

Something like a pool of 5000 investment managers each less likely to make a good decision than would a coin toss, would still produce a small population of "masters of the universe" after 5 years.