FPA Reads
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FPA Reads 2013-14
Come out to see this lively lecture by the entertaining author of this year’s FPA Reads book selection:
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway
Lecture by author Dan Gardner
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013
2nd floor River Building
7:00 p.m.
Reception/book signing to follow – books will be available for purchase.
| In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious book, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proved that pundits who are more famous are less accurate — and the average expert is no more accurate than a flipped coin. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near. |  |
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Read this book over the summer (or whenever you want!) and this fall we’ll get you thinking about this book, its themes and implications, and maybe some challenging questions with a series of events that will highlight the book and the author. |
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