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Great question. Calibration specifically is about whether your confidence in an answer matches your accuracy, not whether you know the answer. Someone who knows
by convexly 6mo ago
Great question. Calibration specifically is about whether your confidence in an answer matches your accuracy, not whether you know the answer. Someone who knows a lot but is always 90% confident would score poorly even if they're wrong 20% of the time, as an example.
In terms of research, Tetlock's Expert Political Judgement and Superforecasting were the foundation. He did a 20 year study that showed domain experts were barely better than chance at long-range predictions. The Brier score was the standard metric for that research.
- lorenzohess 6mo agoI see, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the UI should reflect this? Have one button for True or False or Uncertain, and then the slider for confidence in the answer?
- convexly 6mo agoThat's a really good UX idea. I can see how it's not the most intuitive now. Separating the direction from the confidence level would make it much clearer. Adding that to my list.