Escaping the tyranny of certainty

A mysterious door.

Photo illustration by Mark Riechers. Original images by Rodion Kutsaiev and Alexander Grey (CC0)

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Turns out there is an emerging science of uncertainty — a new frontier in psychology, artificial intelligence, and surgery — where things can go very wrong when people are missing a crucial skill set: being unsure. Maggie Jackson explains.