economics – Brian of London https://brianoflondon.me The collected works of Brian of London Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:31:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5 https://i0.wp.com/brianoflondon.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-Brian-of-London-with-sig-600x600.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 economics – Brian of London https://brianoflondon.me 32 32 156832491 Economic forecasting or climate forecasting: which is worse? https://brianoflondon.me/2019/02/economic-forecasting-or-climate-forecasting-which-is-worse/ https://brianoflondon.me/2019/02/economic-forecasting-or-climate-forecasting-which-is-worse/#respond Sun, 03 Feb 2019 07:36:04 +0000 https://brianoflondon.me/?p=460 It’s hard to tell which “science” is more often wrong: economic forecasting or climate forecasting. Predict, 165,000 – get 304,000. Epic fail.

Every month economists make forecasts about all sorts of things. They use complex computer models filled with invented algorithms into which they feed observations of market movements and any other data they can lay their hands on. At the end the spit out predictions. Which are, pretty regularly, epic fails. Just because the outcome is better than expectation, missing with a prediction by 100% makes that original prediction completely useless and anyone who took action based on that prediction looks like a fool.

The claims made by computer modelling climate “scientists” are usually set much further into the future. So when they fail so epically, the “scientists” have usually spent the intervening years massaging their models to hide how much of an epic fail their entire branch of “science” has been.

The only thing worse than either climate forecasting or economic forecasting, is making economic policies based on climate forecasts.

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