Philip E. Tetlock
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Philip E. Tetlock (born 1954) is a Canadian-American political science writer, and is currently the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is cross-appointed at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Philip E. Tetlock | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Alma mater | Yale University (Ph.D.) (1979) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | political forecasting, political psychology, forecasting, decision making |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Annenberg University Professor at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences (2011–present), University of California, Berkeley Mitchell Endowed Chair at the Haas School of Business (2002–2010) Ohio State University Burtt Endowed Chair in Psychology and Political Science (1996–2001) University of California, Berkeley (1979–1995) |
He has written several non-fiction books at the intersection of psychology, political science and organizational behavior, including Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction; Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?; Unmaking the West: What-if Scenarios that Rewrite World History; and Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics. Tetlock is also co-principal investigator of The Good Judgment Project, a multi-year study of the feasibility of improving the accuracy of probability judgments of high-stakes, real-world events.