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extremizing: a standalone construct

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Forecasting

pushing an averaged probability forecast further toward 0 or 1 to correct for the underconfidence that averaging creates.

In forecasting, extremizing refers to pushing an averaged probability forecast further toward 0 or 1 to correct for the underconfidence that averaging creates. This meaning comes from Baron (2014) in Decision Analysis.[1]

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References

  1. Baron, J., Mellers, B. A., Tetlock, P. E., Stone, E., & Ungar, L. H. (2014). Two Reasons to Make Aggregated Probability Forecasts More Extreme. Decision Analysis, 11(2), 133-145. https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2014.0293

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