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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 he thought I was probably bright enough to do well, and he probably thought that I was contrarian and weird enough that there was some possibility of doing something distinctively well.”

— Philip E. Tetlock

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Speaker
Philip E. Tetlock
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Apr 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Well, if anyone would know it’s you, right? [laughter] You’ve lived with it for some time. I think he thought I was probably bright enough to do well, and he probably thought that I was contrarian and weird enough that there was some possibility of doing something distinctively well. Something distinctive and different and doing it well. Do you think academic advisors, in general, today undervalue weird students?…

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