JoshuaZ comments on 1001 PredictionBook Nights - Less Wrong

51 Post author: gwern 08 October 2011 04:04PM

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Comment author: gwern 12 October 2011 03:03:19PM *  3 points [-]

You don't have very many predictions judged, so I'm not sure how reliable your worry is - only 8-11 predictions for each decile seems quite possible to just get lucky. Assuming that's not the case, you could try mechanically bumping up every prediction by 10% and see what happens.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 October 2011 08:59:45PM 1 point [-]

Yes, that seems like a good point. I'm especially worried that my long-term predictions will turn out to be much too overconfident. And presumably I won't see that until at least a while has gone by.