Correctness without an audience changes nothing. A body of knowledge that qualifies every claim in order to stay defensible loses the capacity to move the people who would have to act on it, and that is a failure of the same order as being wrong.

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  But they tended to be too discursive, too inclined to qualify their claims to hold an audience. Talk show hosts rarely invited them back. Policymakers found themselves too busy to listen. Tetlock's hedgehogs, in contrast, shunned

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