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Great project. Thanks. With predictions, I've noticed a trend where a person will appear on TV and make prediction after prediction that are wrong. And they
by jimmydddd 6y ago
Great project. Thanks.
With predictions, I've noticed a trend where a person will appear on TV and make prediction after prediction that are wrong. And they don't seem to feel even a bit shy about making further predictions with apparent certaintity.
Like, they will go on cable news and say, I know about this stuff, and I guarantee that X will happen to Trump by June. And the commentator never says, "but you predicted that he wouldn't actually run for office (wrong), wouldn't win the nomination (wrong) wouldn't get elected (wrong), would get impeached by January (wrong), etc. Maybe you shouldn't be so sure in your predictions?"
- krrrh 6y agoI think on cable news you can see different treatment of “MSNBC/FoxNews/CNN analyst...” who are under contract to the network for regular appearances vs. guests that are unpaid. Other than the phrase I quoted above it isn’t always obvious (especially to casual viewers) that the host is talking to a colleague.
- mishu2 6y agoThank you. That was one of the reasons I started the website, I think we desperately need experts, but it's getting more and more difficult to tell the charlatans apart from the experts outside our own field. Glad to see I'm not alone.