Coaching practices for Calibration Training for My Teenager

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  • My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
  • I make calls about how things will go all the time, but I never write them down or check them after
  • There’s one area I consider myself an expert in, and that’s exactly where I’m most stubbornly sure and most often wrong
  • When I say I’m eighty percent sure I genuinely don’t know if that means anything
  • My child can name their feelings now, but only ever once they’ve already blown up

Practices that may help

  1. Calibration Training
    Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable.
  2. Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
    Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
    Calibration Training
  3. Calibration practice
    Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
    Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
  4. Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use
    Keep a forecast log and score it — you cannot improve calibration without feedback on where you were over- or under-confident.
    The Outside View
  5. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
    Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
    Calibration Training
  6. Practice calibration by tracking your confidence predictions
    Your "80% confident" beliefs should come true about 80% of the time — check that they do.
    Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally
  7. Build zone check-ins into the daily routine
    Asking "what zone are you in?" regularly makes zone awareness automatic rather than crisis-only.
    Zones of Regulation (Leah Kuypers)
  8. Periodically compare self-ratings with objective data
    People systematically miscalibrate self-monitoring — periodic objective checks correct the drift.
    Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
  9. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
    Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
    Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
  10. Practice probability calibration
    Regularly make probabilistic predictions and track your accuracy across many of them.
    Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect

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