 | This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (September 2018) |
Philip E. Tetlock | |
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 Tetlock at the 2017 World Economic Forum | |
| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | political forecasting, political psychology, forecasting, decision making |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of California, Berkeley Ohio State University |
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.
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.