gwern comments on Overconfident Pessimism - Less Wrong

25 Post author: lukeprog 24 November 2012 12:47AM

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Comment author: gwern 28 November 2012 04:54:08AM 7 points [-]

Calibration is trainable. (I would hardly be engaged in it if the studies had shown overconfidence to be incorrigible.) BTW, much more surprising is that generating random numbers is also trainable if the subjects are given access to statistical tests of the quality of their randomness.