Coaching practices for High Confidence Error Retention
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The mistakes that mortify me most are the ones I was dead certain about and turned out flat wrong
- The stuff I’m most certain I’ve nailed is exactly what blindsides me on the test
- I’m sure about things constantly and I have no idea if that confidence is earned
- My confidence comes straight from how good a story I can tell myself about this particular case, and the more vivid the story the surer I get
- I keep being so sure I’m right and then being wrong, and I have no way to see whether my confidence actually means anything
Practices that may help
- Prioritize items you were confidently wrong about
Items you felt sure about but got wrong are retained especially well after correction — target these deliberately.
Errorful Learning: Why Making Mistakes Strengthens Memory - Regression-to-mean awareness in JOLs
Discount your highest-confidence JOLs most — they are the most likely to be inflated.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned - Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions
Assign explicit probability estimates to your predictions and track whether they come true at the right rate.
Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds - Anchor your confidence level on base rates, not gut feel
Start your confidence estimate from the historical hit rate for this type of prediction, not from how confident you feel.
Calibration Training - Track your calibration across many predictions
Score your confidence levels against outcomes over dozens of predictions to find your systematic biases.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - 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 - Maintain a scored prediction log
Record predictions with explicit probabilities and score them when they resolve.
Calibration Training - Calibration practice
Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn - 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. - Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
Circle of Competence
Related concerns
- Metacognitive Calibration Overconfidence
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.
- Calibrated Confidence
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.
- Confidence Accuracy Calibration
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.
- Confidence Interval Training
Estimate ranges for factual quantities and check how often the true value falls within your range.
Practice confidence interval estimation
- How To Calibrate Confidence
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.
- How To Improve Confidence Estimates
Start your confidence estimate from the historical hit rate for this type of prediction, not from how confident you feel.
Anchor your confidence level on base rates, not gut feel
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