Risk Intelligence
This week’s guest blogger is Dylan Evans, an author and academic at University College Cork, Ireland. He lectures in behavioural science and is the author of numerous books including Emotion and Placebo. President Obama recently criticized American spy agencies for failing to predict the spreading unrest in the Middle East. Now a new study is attempting to discover what makes a good forecaster. Volunteers are being recruited for a multi-year, web-based study of people’s ability to predict world events. The study is sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). One aim of the study is to discover whether … Read more
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