Monthly Archives: May 2015

Pay More Attention to History, Less on Forecasts

Economics is the only profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. Remember earlier this year when just about everyone anticipated higher interest rates, but then the Bank of Canada slashed rates instead? If mainstream economic predictions were right interest rates would be a lot higher by now, our wages would have grown to keep… Read More »

Overconfidence and the Dunning–Kruger effect

Many people are unaware that they are victims of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, falsely assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for… Read More »