skewness

"Researching and better understanding them is important if we want to be able to predict possible future climate tipping points caused by humans. While the slowdown seen in the first type of tipping point leads to a decrease in variability, autocorrelation, and skewness, the flickering in the second type leads to the exact opposite -- and, in some cases, to the impending tipping point not being recognized."

They don’t want to, but they understand that if you’re investing in a portfolio of these potential unicorns, positive skewness, or high upside, also means that nine bets out of 10, or some similar large percentage, are going to end up at zero.

It relates to something called “skewness.”

Positive skewness is upside potential.

And negative skewness is the opposite: it’s a small chance of something terrible happening such as a bank run.