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The Black Swan:
For an example from real life, check out page 9 of this document for a fund my investment advisor wanted me to invest in:
"We got a positive number of pennies almost every day for several years!"
(NB: I'm not making a global judgment about this fund, just about the inherent anti-epistemology of obsessing over day to day "volatility".)