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On the Science of Being Wrong

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David Jensen
Jan 23, 2011
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A tidbit that caught my eye from an article by David Brooks in the Jan. 17, 2011, issue of the New Yorker.

"Human beings are overconfidence machines. Paul J. H. Schoemaker and J. Edward Russo gave questionnaires to more than two thousand executives in order to measure how much they knew about their industries. Managers in the advertising industry gave an…

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