#15 Classic episode - Prof Tetlock on chimps beating Berkeley undergrads & when to defer to the wise
Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in November 2017.
Prof Philip Tetlock is a social science legend. Over forty years he has researched whose predictions we can trust, whose we can’t and why - and developed methods that allow all of us to be better at predicting the future.
After the Iraq WMDs fiasco, the US intelligence services hired him to figure out how to ensure they’d never screw up that badly again. The result of that work – Superforecasting – was a media sensation in 2015.