Wine, cheese and Anderson Cooper - are all things that get better with age - however with the immortalization of our words on the internet have shown, some things are far from aging gracefully. The Facebook page Posts that did not age well is dedicated to reposting quotes, news, social media posts, and comments shared on the internet that, as we can see now, did not stand the test of time and might make you cringe.
Our list is filled with newspaper headlines whose future predictions went wrong, to companies that couldn't anticipate what tomorrow would hold. Scroll down below to check out the best selections from this page that will make you say, "man that post did not age well." And don't forget to upvote your favorite fake news!
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While it's hard to predict the future, some people are exceptionally good at it. The so-called "super-forecasters" can predict the likelihood of future events with astonishing accuracy, often with no particular prior expertise. Historically, evidence suggests that they are mostly generalists who dabble in all sorts of fields. They're simply less beholden to their own biases. The same applies when reversed, people who have built up an impressive but narrowly-focused expertise are usually less-accurate with their future predictions because they're limited by their own worldviews more.
Surprisingly, this is also true with people who have dedicated their lives to one field of study when they're trying to guess where that field is going. And we have data on that, emerging after a 20-year experiment that began in 1984 at a meeting of a National Research Council committee on American-Soviet relations. At the time, the psychologist and political scientist Philip E. Tetlock was 30. After listening to other members discuss Soviet intentions and American policies, he was interested in the authoritative predictions delivered by renowned experts because many of them contradicted one another.
Soon after, he decided to put expert political and economic predictions to the test. Tetlock collected forecasts from 284 well-educated experts who averaged more than 12 years of experience in their fields. Ensuring that the predictions were concrete, experts had to give specific probabilities of future events. Tetlock wanted to collect enough predictions that he could separate lucky and unlucky streaks from true skill. The project lasted 20 years and comprised of 82,361 probability estimates about the future.
The result: the experts were, by and large, terrible at predicting the future. Surprisingly, their areas of specialty, years of experience, and (for some) access to classified information made no difference either. They were bad at both short-term forecasting and at long-term forecasting. They were simply bad at this.
"Was this answer helpful?" Answer NO cause the truth would be more helpful thank you very much.
"Virtual unknowns"? That was just in the US. In Australia and the UK, respectively, both were bankable actors at this point in their careers.
This is so sad... I lost a cousin I never even got to meet to this... I was named after her
Physicist Heinrich Hertz, upon proving the existence of radio waves, stated that “It’s of no use whatsoever.” When asked about the applications of his discovery: “Nothing, I guess.”
In their defense....WHO ON EARTH could have predicted the reality of MJ?! No one!
After many unfortunate events brought a bad reputation to the name ISIS, the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services (ISIS) has become the Immigration Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)
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FOr the record, Sir Isaac Newton didn't say that about walls and bridges. It's a paraphrase from a book by Joseph F. Newton, and the person at the Nobels who said Newton wrote it forgot to amend, "But not Sir Isaac". Just sayin'. We got 10 bonus points on an exam for knowing this in physics...
Nice! I tried entry level physics as I was interested in bio anth, and it was a requisite. Omg I passed but hardly Lol, physics makes my brain overload. So many variables and formulae!
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I would have appreciated some simple explanations for many of these. :/ Not everything is general knowledge (and nobody knows all general knowledge). I'll wait for all the lovely Panda Captain Obivouses.
1.Made fun of Walmart employees in 2013. Became Walmart employee in 2016 2.Donald Trump said the US needed a president that was not a laughing stock in 2014. Many feel he is a laughing stock as President in 2019. 3.Economist said the internet would have no impact on economy by 2005. Internet is how nearly everyone trades, shops, communicates in 2019. 4.Apple claimed their products cost less but do more. Apple released a $1000 display stand in 2019 and most of their other products cost much more than comparable products of other brands. 5. Bayer claimed Heroin was non-addictive. 6.Donald Trump tweeted quote about building too many walls and not enough bridges in 2013. Is attempting to build wall in US in 2019 7.Marvel cast two “unknown” actors in a big movie in 2009. Actors are some of the most well-known actors in 2019. 8.Facebook claimed it would never sell user’s information. In 2018 Facebook was caught selling personal data for political purposes.
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I wish this link was above this post and a little bit more visible. This way you scroll through the short list and have to scroll through the same list again toget to the new ones or even better, show the long list directly on bored panda and just give the short list to facebook under another link.
Agreed! Then again, they could just stop cutting these and those who are happy with best 30 can stop there.
Load More Replies... FOr the record, Sir Isaac Newton didn't say that about walls and bridges. It's a paraphrase from a book by Joseph F. Newton, and the person at the Nobels who said Newton wrote it forgot to amend, "But not Sir Isaac". Just sayin'. We got 10 bonus points on an exam for knowing this in physics...
Nice! I tried entry level physics as I was interested in bio anth, and it was a requisite. Omg I passed but hardly Lol, physics makes my brain overload. So many variables and formulae!
Load More Replies... I would have appreciated some simple explanations for many of these. :/ Not everything is general knowledge (and nobody knows all general knowledge). I'll wait for all the lovely Panda Captain Obivouses.
1.Made fun of Walmart employees in 2013. Became Walmart employee in 2016 2.Donald Trump said the US needed a president that was not a laughing stock in 2014. Many feel he is a laughing stock as President in 2019. 3.Economist said the internet would have no impact on economy by 2005. Internet is how nearly everyone trades, shops, communicates in 2019. 4.Apple claimed their products cost less but do more. Apple released a $1000 display stand in 2019 and most of their other products cost much more than comparable products of other brands. 5. Bayer claimed Heroin was non-addictive. 6.Donald Trump tweeted quote about building too many walls and not enough bridges in 2013. Is attempting to build wall in US in 2019 7.Marvel cast two “unknown” actors in a big movie in 2009. Actors are some of the most well-known actors in 2019. 8.Facebook claimed it would never sell user’s information. In 2018 Facebook was caught selling personal data for political purposes.
Load More Replies... I wish this link was above this post and a little bit more visible. This way you scroll through the short list and have to scroll through the same list again toget to the new ones or even better, show the long list directly on bored panda and just give the short list to facebook under another link.
Agreed! Then again, they could just stop cutting these and those who are happy with best 30 can stop there.
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