Search Results for "forecasting"
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Where Are We Headed?
By Ed McKinley
|…in this annual forecasting issue. Our effort in these pages to bring clarity to the science of forecasting includes a mashup of two of our favorite movements: Factfulness and Superforecasting. …
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What Gamblers Can Learn From Superforecasters
By Warren Hatch
|…quality of forecasting. Another essential component is practice. On Good Judgment Inc.’s public platform, GJ Open, anyone can try forecasting—from predicting the next NBA winner to estimating the future price…
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Money Over Mind
By Mike Reddy
|…Hanson, and one of us had done research in forecasting using statistics and machine learning. We dove deeper into the literature on forecasting, reading papers from economists, such as Justin…
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Is AI Exciting New Tech or an Existential Threat?
By Ed McKinley
|…of the University of Pennsylvania. The XPT was conducted at the Forecasting Research Institute. Forecasting guru Philip Tetlock served as the XPTs chief scientist and helped lead the Superforecasting work…
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The Cost of Overconfidence
By Warren Hatch
|Hubris erects a barrier to good forecasting. Unchecked, it could prove expensive. With SPACs all the rage, it’s important not to get too carried away by the rhetoric. Overconfidence can…
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Rachel Bitecofer Knows Partisan Politics
By Luckbox
|…no stranger to political forecasting, skyrocketing in popularity after nailing the 2018 midterms with near total accuracy. And to prediction market traders who heed her predictions, Bitecofer has proven her…
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Making Rain
By Mike Reddy
|…thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. Forecasting has come a long way. Event-based prediction markets represent yet another tool for weather forecasting, albeit a terrestrial one still in its…
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Forecasts for Farmers
|…issue of Luckbox is all about forecasting.Onlyfarmers.com? I ordered my Farmers’ Almanac from Amazon for $7.99. When it arrived, I was shocked at how flimsy it’s become. The newsprint seemed…
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Politics Has a Futures Market
By Mike Reddy
|…of winning or losing money, is more accurate at forecasting political events than traditional methods of measuring public opinion, such as polling. Whether or not they actually are more accurate…
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FALSE PROPHETS
|…stop funding your IRA. Nostradamus also understood the value of forecasting big events. Why go small when you can go big and really attract some attention? He also had the…