TylerHeishman comments on Hindsight Devalues Science - Less Wrong

92 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 August 2007 07:39PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 18 August 2007 12:14:37AM 12 points [-]

These examples emphasize the benefit of frequently taking calibration tests, where we assign probabilities to answers and then checks those answer for calibration errors. Perhaps someone could create a website where we could do this regularly? Just collect a large list of questions like the ones above, questions with true answers but where we have intuitions about what the answer might be, and then have us answer those questions with probabilities, and then show us a calibration chart for the last X questions. Yes, collecting the good questions will be most of the work.

Comment author: TylerHeishman 18 February 2014 06:19:32PM 2 points [-]

CFAR has 2 apps you might find interesting; I was able to find them on apple store easily. http://rationality.org/apps/

Comment author: AlexanderRM 17 October 2014 10:01:52PM 0 points [-]

Are those apps only available on Apple products/smartphones? No way to access them on a Windows PC?

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 October 2014 12:36:39AM 0 points [-]

The calibration game is also available for Android and was available for Windows but I think the original website is down.

Comment author: Unnamed 18 October 2014 02:21:08AM 1 point [-]

The Credence Calibration game is also available for Windows. Links to download it in the various formats are here.