FiftyTwo comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 31 December 2011 10:29:57PM 13 points [-]

Most of the predictions in this thread will turn out to have been overconfident

The above prediction will turn out to have been overconfident.

All three predictions in this post will turn out to have been overconfident.

:p

Comment author: FiftyTwo 03 January 2012 03:11:17PM 1 point [-]

Trying to work out if there are any falsification conditions for the above...

Comment author: taelor 04 January 2012 10:56:24PM 1 point [-]

Count all the predictions that were assigned a 90% probability, and determine if the percentage that were correct is less than 90%? Repeat for all other probabilities?