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In the Final Analysis
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JOM
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July 1, 2004
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"A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organized."
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While I am neither good at forecasting nor smarter than every (any?) one else, I know for certain that I work very hard to keep my ignorance well indexed, color-coded, and sorted. For an editor, the proper care and feeding of one's ignorance is essential to filling issue after issue of otherwise blank pages.
My top forecasting (a.k.a., ignorance-organizing) tool appears on the next page in the form of the JOM Technical Emphasis Calendar. In largest part, the calendar is assembled based on input received from the myriad TMS technical committees. Annually, I invite the society's ...