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233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

FromFreakonomics Radio


233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

FromFreakonomics Radio

ratings:
Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jan 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.
Released:
Jan 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode