{"id":41700,"date":"2010-06-25T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41700"},"modified":"2010-06-25T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T14:41:50","slug":"the-openness-elixir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41700","title":{"rendered":"The Openness Elixir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704009804575309610811148630.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As David H. Freedman notes in &#8220;Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us\u2014And  How to Know When Not to Trust Them,&#8221; such cluelessness is all too   common in our expert-mediated world. Look at all those economists who  failed to predict the great crash of 2008 or the rating agencies whose  metrics melted into mere wishful thinking. Realtors, who are supposed to  know more than you or I about the housing market,  predicted housing  prices would trend up for 2008. Experts, <em>schmexperts<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. As David H. Freedman notes in &#8220;Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us\u2014And How to Know When Not to Trust Them,&#8221; such cluelessness is all too common in our expert-mediated world. Look at all those economists who failed to predict the great crash of 2008 or the rating agencies whose metrics melted into mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41702,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions\/41702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}