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But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the \"prediction paradox\" The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on his own groundbreaking work in sports and politics, Nate Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how to seek truth from data. In \u003ci\u003eThe Signal and the Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, Silver visits innovative forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. 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