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a confident bet against the future, dressed up in math and crossed fingers
means A statement about what will happen before it actually does, based on reasoning, data, or sheer hopeful guesswork.
from From Latin praedictio, built from prae- 'before' plus dicere 'to say' — literally 'a saying-beforehand.' The same dicere ('to say, speak') seeds a whole family of English words: dictate, verdict, contradict, even diction. So a prediction is, at root, just speech aimed forward in time, daring the future to disagree.
weather limitAtmospheric chaos caps forecasts at about two weeks
expert blind spotSpecialists often predict worse than simple statistical models
self-fulfillingPredicting a bank run can cause the run
oracle businessDelphi's vague prophecies were profitably unfalsifiable
hindsight biasPeople insist they knew outcomes all along