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Book cover for The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
There are no guarantees that flu predictions will do better the next time around. In fact, the flu and other infectious diseases have several properties that make them intrinsically very challenging to predict.
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Norm Macdonald
“Women are attracted to funny men, it is often said. This is not true. It only appears this way because women laugh at everything a very handsome man says. So this gives the very handsome men the idea that they are funny.”
Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

Adam M. Grant
“Thirty years ago, the sociologist Fred Goldner wrote about what it means to experience the opposite of paranoia: pronoia. According to the distinguished psychologist Brian Little, pronoia is “the delusional belief that other people are plotting your well-being, or saying nice things about you behind your back.”
Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Norm Macdonald
“I could not ignore their withering glances. They looked at me the way real vampires look at Count Chocula.”
Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

Ibram X. Kendi
“Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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