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In Future Babble, award-winning journalist Dan Gardner presents landmark research debunking the complete expert prediction industry and explores our obsession with the near future. In 2008, as the price tag on petrol surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; it then plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR could be the world's fastest-growing market by 2000; by 2000, the USSR no more been around. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe-we all understand how that proved. The truth is that experts are about as correct as dart-throwing monkeys. Yet, every day we ask them to anticipate the future-everything from the elements to the probability of a catastrophic terrorist assault. This is actually the first book to examine this phenomenon, displaying why our brains yearn for certainty about the near future, why our company is drawn to those who anticipate it confidently, and just why it's so easy for us to disregard the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. How good you are at predicting the near future doesn't be based upon your education or experience. It depends upon how you think: such as a fox or such as a hedgehog. Foxes know a little about a whole lot of things. They may have doubts. They often times sensible wishy-washy. And you don't see them on tv set much. Alternatively, hedgehogs know a whole lot about a very important factor. They are absolutely certain. They are confident. Almost every popular expert you can think of is a hedgehog. And they are experts at detailing away predictions they made that ended up being wrong. For real understanding into what is coming next, you need to consult foxes and think like one, too. Future Babble talks about at length what which means, and ways to tell foxes and hedgehogs apart. n this example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious audiobook, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proven that a lot more famous a pundit is, the more likely he is to be right about normally as a ceased watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics in delivering this reassuring message: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.
