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233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

Freakonomics Radio • January 14, 2016

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Experts and pundits are notoriously bad at forecasting, in part because they aren't punished for bad predictions. Also, they tend to be deeply unscientific. The psychologist Philip Tetlock is finally turning prediction into a science -- and now even you could become a superforecaster.

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