Equation 1 · Part 5 · Futures Methods and Technological Scenarios in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol o_i
What this part means
is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
The Brier score is the mean squared error between a stated probability and the binary outcome (1 if it happened, 0 if it did not): . where is the forecaster’s stated probability on question i and \{0,1\} is the realized outcome. Lower is better; a perfectly calibrated coin-flip forecaster scores 0.25 on a 50/50 question, and a forecaster who says 100 percent and is wrong scores the maximum possible 1.0.
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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [2] Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? ↗
- [3] Strictly Proper Scoring Rules, Prediction, and Estimation ↗
- [7] A Primer on the Metaculus Scoring Rule ↗
- [1] Identifying and Cultivating Superforecasters as a Method of Improving Probabilistic Predictions ↗
- [4] Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) Program ↗
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