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Expert political judgment: How good is it? how can we know?

Tetlock, Philip E

Princeton: Princeton University Press 2005

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Expert political judgment: How good is it? how can we know?
Autor: Tetlock, Philip E
Assuntos: Experts ; Ideology ; Political psychology ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
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Descrição: The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He evaluates predictions from experts in different fields, comparing them to predictions by well-informed laity or those based on simple extrapolation from current trends. He goes on to analyze which styles of thinking are more successful in forecasting. Classifying thinking styles using Isaiah Berlin's prototypes of the fox and the hedgehog, Tetlock contends that the fox—the thinker who knows many little things, draws from an eclectic array of traditions, and is better able to improvise in response to changing events—is more successful in predicting the future than the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, toils devotedly within one tradition, and imposes formulaic solutions on ill-defined problems. He notes a perversely inverse relationship between the best scientific indicators of good judgement and the qualities that the media most prizes in pundits—the single-minded determination required to prevail in ideological combat.
Editor: Princeton: Princeton University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2005
Formato: 340
Idioma: Inglês

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