Taleb wrote Fooled by Randomness with no references initially, then after meeting Danny Kahneman in 2002, he read about 100 psychology books in six months, found the behavioral economics math trivial and wrong, and retrofitted references to papers he had already written, explicitly acknowledging this was not fully honorable but was done to link his ideas to the discipline.
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“I went and I got about 100 books in Psychology I read it over a period of say six months okay went through the Corpus everything figured out you know they they think that their math is complex their math is Trivial and wrong and then I cited okay and I modeled the I remodeled the uh Prospect the Theory... and I start putting references on sentences I've written before not knowing anything about it which was not the most honor thing”
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