The phrase
"unknown unknowns" refers to things that we don't know that we don't know. It describes information or situations that we are completely unaware of, making it difficult to prepare for or predict them.
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With an ambitious new visual - journalism unit at The Intercept, the Citizenfour director is planning to take non-fiction film - making into the unknown
If you haven't had a policy before, you're dealing in
unknown unknowns rather than known unknowns, and you deserve to know exactly what you're buying — and why.
You only live once so I'm all in, never fear the unknown
Some of the deepest lines in history — what «is» is,
unknown unknowns etc. — are produced by men caught with their pants down but congenitally resistant to admitting it.
It might not be the most eloquent use of the English language, but I have always felt that Don Rumsfeld was on to something important with his famous known knowns, known unknowns,
unknown unknowns comment.
They may have been made yesterday or, as occurs so rarely, a million years ago and we feel a connection with the unknown
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Read too many crap books to take a chance on an unknown
In era of «quantified self,» designer data tracking, and leveraging self - monitoring for personal transcendence, Mountain explicitly states that there are
simply unknown unknowns.
I'm just having a little trouble seeing how to link sensitivity via what have turned out to be
unknown unknowns right through to social and economic impacts (which I'm saying those examples in my last comment may well be).
And she focuses on uncertainties and
unknown unknowns far more than on the consensus of climate scientists, who say we know enough to be deeply worried.
In an open environment with, Dr Curry's
unknown unknowns affecting each station plus numerous other factors, a longer term trend is required.
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If you haven't had a policy before, you're dealing in
unknown unknowns rather than known unknowns, and you deserve to know exactly what you're buying — and why.
Jules, the difficulty is that there is a widespread view that there are as yet some pretty nasty unknown knowns and known /
unknown unknowns lurking out there.
Today, Dataminr specializes in identifying black - swan events, or «
unknown unknowns,» as Bailey calls them, before the market reacts.
These are the known unknowns, but
the unknown unknowns are equally worrying.
It's humbling, even frightening, to discover
our unknown unknowns.
«We live in an uncertain world and face not only the risks of the known unknowns but also
the unknown unknowns — the ones that we don't know we don't know,» he said.
I learned to double any estimate to allow for
those unknown unknowns to settle out.
Indeed, I jumped into the wormhole of blind spots and
unknown unknowns.