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Nate Silver

“Schelling writes of our propensity to mistake the unfamiliar for the improbable: There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange is thought improbable; what is improbable need not be considered seriously.”

Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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