Calibration

How often what was called likely actually happened. A range is calibrated when outcomes land inside it about as often as it claimed, which is the one test a forecast can pass.

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What it rests on, and what rests on it

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In the model

  • The model's principle “Validation is an institution, not a phase”

Sources

  1. Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting, ch. 3, Keeping Score, 2015.