Future Babble : Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe them Anyway Richard Martin or hang coins or bells

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Future Babble : Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe them Anyway Richard Martin or hang coins or bellsIn 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest growing economy by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1908, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the