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Calibration & Forecasting

A topic within Judgement & Decision Making, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Calibration & Forecasting

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Paper2014

Psychological Strategies for Winning a Geopolitical Forecasting Tournament

Barbara Mellers, Lyle Ungar, Jonathan Baron, Jaime Ramos, Burcu Gurcay, Katrina Fincher, Sydney E. Scott, Don Moore, Pavel Atanasov, Samuel A. Swift, Terry Murray, Eric Stone & Philip E. Tetlock

In a multi-year geopolitical forecasting tournament, the best-calibrated forecasters were not the most expert but the ones trained in probabilistic reasoning, working in teams, and tracked for accuracy over time - the ingredients of a trainable skill rather than a fixed trait.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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