Equation 1 · Part 6 · Futures Methods and Technological Scenarios in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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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.
Learn the underlying idea
An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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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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