Jadrian Wooten, Ph.D. - Pundits: The confidence trick: Better

Journal article

Ben Smith, Jadrian Wooten
Significance, vol. 10(4), 2013, pp. 15–18

DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00675.x

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Smith, B., & Wooten, J. (2013). Pundits: The confidence trick: Better confident than right? Significance, 10(4), 15–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00675.x

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Smith, Ben, and Jadrian Wooten. “Pundits: The Confidence Trick: Better Confident than Right?” Significance 10, no. 4 (2013): 15–18.

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Smith, Ben, and Jadrian Wooten. “Pundits: The Confidence Trick: Better Confident than Right?” Significance, vol. 10, no. 4, 2013, pp. 15–18, doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00675.x.

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@article{ben2013a,
  title = {Pundits: The confidence trick: Better confident than right?},
  year = {2013},
  issue = {4},
  journal = {Significance},
  pages = {15–18},
  volume = {10},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00675.x},
  author = {Smith, Ben and Wooten, Jadrian}
}

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?