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There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could.
In the 20th century, this behavior gained popularity amongst the middle class. It became “Keeping up with the Joneses.”
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
Tetlock recruited 284 pundits and had them make 82,000 individual predictions from 1983 to 2003.
Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.
In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.
Why I'm pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and support for universal human rights.