Predicting the future of society

Matthew J. Salganik ()
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Matthew J. Salganik: Princeton University

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 4, 478-479

Abstract: Predicting the future is something that humans have tried to do — in various ways — for a very long time. A paper by Grossmann et al. tests the ability of social scientists to predict societal change and finds that they are not particularly good at it.

Date: 2023
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