Accuracy Quote by Edgar Fiedler

“The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.”

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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..

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Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

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For economist the real world is often a special case.

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When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know…

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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard..

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There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old…

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If you have to forecast, forecast often..

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There is no such thing as a riskless hedge against inflation.

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In a sense, there are as many forecasting methods as there are forecasters. But I would argue that most projections are derived from two…

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We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.

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Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to…

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No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know…

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Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

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Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence…

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