Tetlock Expert Quotes & Sayings

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. — Thomas Ehrlich

Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms. — Cornel West

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor. — Beau Mirchoff

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones

Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, explored these so-called expert predictions in a landmark twenty-year study, which he published in his 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? — Daniel Kahneman

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in New York mentioned a few chapters ago that launched the new science of what we might call Stupidology. It — Bill Bryson

The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness. — John Bosco

The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be. — Nate Silver

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it. — Jessie Ware

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step. — Henry Cloud

Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war. — M.F. Moonzajer

What a terrible thing life can be. — Jeff Lindsay

I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis! — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens. — Robert Griffin III