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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
18 Nov 2015 Conversations with Tyler Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)
“Now, I think I’m interested in this issue, as I think you are. Extreme performances or performers, and it’s measured most readily in sports.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- belief
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- 18 Nov 2015
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yes. Now, I think I’m interested in this issue, as I think you are. Extreme performances or performers, and it’s measured most readily in sports. So Gretzky is a kind of extreme outlier. In basketball, you could say Kareem Abdul‑Jabbar who would be in the series as an outlier. Maybe Michael Jordan. In sports or some other area of your choosing, which is the extreme outlier which strikes you as the most amazing? And you just say, “oh my God, I can’t believe there’s a Wayne Gretzky,” or a fill‑in‑the‑blank-there for me, other than Gretzky. I have no sense if this is actually accurate. But actually, no one could measure this. It can’t be accurate. You’re not going to believe what I’m going to say. Cirque du Soleil.…
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