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Today is January 25 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is "How often are you certain?" In Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Philip Tetlock concluded: “The average expert was found to be only slight more accurate than a dart-throwing chimpanzee. Many experts would have done better if they had made random guesses.” American choreographer Agnes de Mille noted “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
By Michael Edmondson, Ph.D.Today is January 25 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is "How often are you certain?" In Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Philip Tetlock concluded: “The average expert was found to be only slight more accurate than a dart-throwing chimpanzee. Many experts would have done better if they had made random guesses.” American choreographer Agnes de Mille noted “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”