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Pundits: The confidence trick: Better confident than right?
Author(s) -
Smith Ben,
Wooten Jadrian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00675.x
Subject(s) - newspaper , sublime , certainty , ask price , psychology , media studies , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , economics , economy
Media pundits are the supreme example of self‐belief and confidence in their own opinions. Through TV, newspapers and blogs they tell us with sublime certainty what will happen. But are they right? And does it matter if they are wrong? Ben Smith and Jadrian Wooten ask what we demand from pundits – accuracy or confidence?