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Have you read Superforecasting? One conclusion they had was that very partisan thinkers, basically dogmatic, were the worst at predicting future events, and it
by carabiner 3y ago
Have you read Superforecasting? One conclusion they had was that very partisan thinkers, basically dogmatic, were the worst at predicting future events, and it didn't matter what that dogma was. Liberal or conservative or anti big business or whatever. All of the really good forecasters were relentlessly fact based and spent a huge amount of time diving deeply into facts, and microfacts that supported facts. It sounded exhausting and one of the author's takeaways was "the world is enormously complex" and that most of us don't know anything about anything (hello gelman amnesia).
- vorpalhex 3y agoThis is funny because I've heard this from the opposite approach: using forecast accuracy to determine personal model accuracy. If you can accurately predict the future above random chance, that lends evidence that your internal state aligns with reality. (There are obviously traps here, eg the conspiracy theorist who sees every outcome as proof of the conspiracy)