Future Babble : why expert predictions are wrong - and why we believe them anyway / Dan Gardner.
Future Babble : why expert predictions are wrong - and why we believe them anyway / Dan Gardner.
Future Babble : why expert predictions are wrong - and why we believe them anyway / Dan Gardner.
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Brunswick : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2011.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2011.
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2011.
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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Contents; Preface; One: Introduction; Two: The Unpredicable World; Three: In the Minds of Experts; Four: The Experts Agree: Expect Much More of the Same; Five: Unsettled by Uncertainty; Six: Everyone Loves a Hedgehog; Seven: When Prophets Fail; Eight: The End; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Brunswick : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2011.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2011.
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Victoria
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2011.
2011.
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For fans of Blink, The Tipping Point, and Freakonomics, here is a brilliant, funny, and accessible exploration of our flawed quest for certainty. In 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 have one of the world's fastest-growi...
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Future Babble : why expert predictions are wrong - and why we believe them anyway / Dan Gardner.
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Print version Gardner, Dan Future Babble : why expert predictions are wrong - and why we believe them anyway Brunswick : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd,c2011 9781921640858.
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153.4
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