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Cognitive Biases
Forecasting: Lecture Notes
Preface
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Course Overview
2
Why Care About Forecasting?
3
Scoring Rules
4
Estimation 101
5
Zeroth and First Order Forecasting
6
Base Rates and Reference Classes
7
The “Other” Option
8
Reading - The Inner Game of Forecasting
9
Combining Forecasts (Part 1)
10
Combining Forecasts (Part 2)
11
Common Probability Distributions
12
Prioritizing Information
13
Turning Considerations Into Probabilities
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Cognitive Biases
15
Information Hygiene
16
Beliefs Across Time
17
Independence Assumptions
18
Kelly Betting
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Cognitive Biases
Author
Jean-Stanislas Denain, Jacob Steinhardt
Notes tbd
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Turning Considerations Into Probabilities
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Information Hygiene