SUPERFORECASTING
7 important questions on SUPERFORECASTING
WISDOM OF THE CROWDS: AGGREGATION
– Judgments of many people that know nothing
– Judgments of many people that know a little
– Aggregation of judgments of people who know lots about lots of different things: collective pool of information is much bigger!
Typical performance
- Relatively unfamiliar lab tasks
- Relatively unmotivated people
• Confirmation trap
• Hindsight bias
• Overconfidence
Optimal performance
How well people could perform
– Selection of exceptional talent
– Offering debiasing training
– Rewarding top performers
– Intrinsically interesting real-world problems
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
IARPA “Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity” mandates to?
– target new opportunities and innovations
– generate revolutionary capabilities
What does the Brier Score measures?
– Lower is better (cf. golf scores)
People that are Above average in fluid intelligence, are?
– More reliable pattern detectors
What is a Fermi Estimate?
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- Never study anything twice again
- Get the grades you hope for
- 100% sure, 100% understanding