A new year dawns, and you know what that means: Insiders, pundits,
and gurus will spend the next 12 months making confident predictions
that turn out to be spectacularly wrong.
"I think that you listen too much to the soldiers," wrote the British statesman Lord Salisbury to the viceroy of India in 1877. "No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts."
But the experts themselves — often mistaken, but never in doubt — rarely seem to learn that lesson. Their forecasts will keep flowing in the year ahead, undeterred by their egregious blunders in the one just ended.
http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2017/01/01/what-experts-predict-reality-will-contradict-n2265913
"I think that you listen too much to the soldiers," wrote the British statesman Lord Salisbury to the viceroy of India in 1877. "No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts."
But the experts themselves — often mistaken, but never in doubt — rarely seem to learn that lesson. Their forecasts will keep flowing in the year ahead, undeterred by their egregious blunders in the one just ended.
http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2017/01/01/what-experts-predict-reality-will-contradict-n2265913
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