We sometimes come under the spell of “wizards,” authoritative voices whose words we are “trained” to take as truths. We deeply want to believe that we can control things, because otherwise, as Woody Allen put it, “life is scarier.” Yet political scientist Philip Tetlock demonstrated in his outstanding book, “Expert Political Judgment,” that even professional economic forecasters don’t make accurate predictions with any persistence.

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