Steven Johnson: Tetlock's superforecasters possess high openness to experience
Steven B. Johnson · a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories · Jan 2, 2019 · at 43:45
Author Steven B. Johnson discusses Philip Tetlock's research on superforecasters and the psychological traits that predict strong decision-making.
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“Tetlock's predictors the super forecasters that we talked about, they were, they had that personality trait in, in spades in general.”
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