Friday, August 5, 2011

#328. Future Babble


Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway (11 Hrs): Award-winning journalist Dan Gardner presents landmark research debunking the whole expert prediction industry and explores our obsession with the future. The truth is that 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 catastrophic terrorist attack.