There's a wonderful program, which I don't discuss in my book and I kind of regret not raising it by Philip Tettlock on super forecasters. What distinguishes those who get it right? And there's many answers to it. But often you don't just go if you got used to tools of rationality. We forget the bad gut. Excuse me, our bad intuitive calls. Even if we think we were pretty good at it, we're probably struggling with the size of the sample.
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.