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People who explain everything with one big idea are bad at modelling the world, and the media selects for them because they sound confident.

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  1. Stephan Guyenet

    Obesity researcher with a PhD in neuroscience

    The work of Philip Tetlock, PhD and others has shown that people who have one big idea to explain everything (“hedgehogs” or ideologues) are very bad at accurately modeling the world, predicting outcomes, and recommending effective actions.

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