Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe them Anyway - Softcover

Gardner, Dan

 
9780753522363: Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe them Anyway
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753522365 ISBN 13: 9780753522363
Verlag: Virgin Books, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest-growing economy by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1908, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future - everything from the weather to the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Future Babble is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict the future confidently, and why it's so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly funny book, Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by professor Philip Tetlock proved that the more famous a pundit is, the more likely they are to be right about as often as a stopped watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dan Gardner is the bestselling author of Risk as well as a columnist and senior writer for the Ottawa Citizen. Trained in history and law, Gardner worked in politics as a senior policy adviser before turning to journalism. His writing has received numerous awards, including the National Newspaper Award and Amnesty International's Media Award. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.

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Verlag
Virgin Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753522365
ISBN 13 
9780753522363
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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