When asked to name the attributes of someone who is particularly bad at predicting, Tetlock needed just one word. Dogmatism, he says. That is, an unshakable belief they know something to be true even when they don’t.
Steven D. Levitt
When asked to name the attributes of someone who is particularly bad at predicting, Tetlock needed just one word. Dogmatism, he says. That is, an unshakable belief they know something to be true even when they don’t.