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Ask a Points Nerd: Whom Can We Trust About Travel Safety? - NASDAQ
Last week, several fellow travel rewards experts weighed in on the question of travel safety: When will it be safe to travel? By what means? To what destinations?
With so much conflicting information and advice circulating not only in the travel world but also in the news generally, the question on many people’s minds (including mine) is not so much "What should we do?" but "Whom can we trust?"
It seems like everyone is suddenly a self-professed epidemiological expert, from travel writers to your Aunt Mary. Yet there is likely an inverse relationship between how confident someone is in their expertise and how close to correct they actually are.
That is, you should trust only those willing to tell you they don’t know.
Last week, several fellow travel rewards experts weighed in on the question of travel safety: When will it be safe to travel? By what means? To what destinations?
With so much conflicting information and advice circulating not only in the travel world but also in the news generally, the question on many people’s minds (including mine) is not so much "What should we do?" but "Whom can we trust?"
It seems like everyone is suddenly a self-professed epidemiological expert, from travel writers to your Aunt Mary. Yet there is likely an inverse relationship between how confident someone is in their expertise and how close to correct they actually are.
That is, you should trust only those willing to tell you they don’t know.