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Old 10-13-2021, 01:20 PM   #354 (permalink)
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Scientifically, a 'black swan' event would have to do with crossing some statistical 'threshold', based upon some historical empirical database and state-of-the-art numerical modelling.
The term is more common in economic circles. The deviation into unexpected realms must also be unpredictable.
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