Agreed 100% on 1) and with 2) I think my point is “start using the normal predictions as a gate way drug to over dispersed and model based predictions”
I stole the idea from Gelman and simplified it for the general community, I am mostly trying to raise the sanity waterline by spreading the gospel of predicting on the scale of the observed data.
All your critiques of normal forecasts are spot on.
Ideally everybody would use mixtures of over-dispersed distributions or models when making predictions to capture all sources of uncertainty
It is my hope that by educating people in continuous prediction the Metaculus trade off you mention will slowly start to favor the continuous predictions because people find it as easy as binary prediction… but this is probably a pipe dream, so I take your point
Agreed 100% on 1) and with 2) I think my point is “start using the normal predictions as a gate way drug to over dispersed and model based predictions”
I stole the idea from Gelman and simplified it for the general community, I am mostly trying to raise the sanity waterline by spreading the gospel of predicting on the scale of the observed data. All your critiques of normal forecasts are spot on.
Ideally everybody would use mixtures of over-dispersed distributions or models when making predictions to capture all sources of uncertainty
It is my hope that by educating people in continuous prediction the Metaculus trade off you mention will slowly start to favor the continuous predictions because people find it as easy as binary prediction… but this is probably a pipe dream, so I take your point