Tyra calculated her Validity Quotient for her prediction that her boss would fire her from her job as a nanny. Tyra estimated that at least three times a month, she worried that her boss would fire her for one thing or another: three times per month, twelve months per year, for five years that’s 180 scary predictions. Tyra had had several bosses over the past five years, but a boss had never fired her and she had always received very positive recommendations.

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