“Back when I was doing predictions for the Good Judgement Project this is something that the top forecasters would use all the time. I don’t recall it being thought inaccurate and the superforecasters were all pretty sharp cookies who were empirically good at making predictions.”
And the discussion on Jeff’s FB post: https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/775488981742.
Especially helpful:
“Back when I was doing predictions for the Good Judgement Project this is something that the top forecasters would use all the time. I don’t recall it being thought inaccurate and the superforecasters were all pretty sharp cookies who were empirically good at making predictions.”