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Philip E. Tetlock: belief

22 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

“I think a lot of good executives have the intuition that you get more out of a team of forecasters or problem solvers if you elicit independent judgments initially that are uncontaminated by conformity pressure, and then you create an environment in which ideas can be freely critiqued before lifting the veil of anonymity and letting people see who’s taking which positions.”

— Philip E. Tetlock

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Philip E. Tetlock
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belief
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22 Apr 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…And which group of people do you think that best describes? I think a lot of good executives have the intuition that you get more out of a team of forecasters or problem solvers if you elicit independent judgments initially that are uncontaminated by conformity pressure, and then you create an environment in which ideas can be freely critiqued before lifting the veil of anonymity and letting people see who’s taking which positions. Do you think having machine learning and artificial intelligence has made us much better at forecasting things right now? Social events —…

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