Equation 5 · Part 1 · Futures Methods and Technological Scenarios in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol p
What this part means
p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol p→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
The logarithmic score , used by Metaculus, is if the event occurs and if it does not. This is a platform claim and design note , not independent research: Metaculus documents that the log score is far more punitive of confident misses than the Brier score is rewarding of confident hits — moving from 99 percent to 99.9 percent gains almost nothing if correct but costs roughly 2.3 points if wrong [ 7 ] . That asymmetry is deliberate: it is what makes the rule “strictly proper” in Gneiting and Raftery’s sense, because it punishes the temptation to round an honest 90 percent up to a persuasive-sounding 99 percent.
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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