Why You’re So Bad at Predicting the Future

And five ways to outsmart your own mental biases

Kate Morgan
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJan 3, 2019

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IIt’s human nature to attempt to conceptualize the future. All civilizations, from the ancient to the modern, have had some tradition of divination or fortune telling; these days, we have data and statistical models to give us some insight into what’s to come. But left to our own devices, most of us are really…

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Kate Morgan
OneZero

Kate is a freelance journalist who’s been published by Popular Science, The New York Times, USA Today, and many more. Read more at bykatemorgan.com.