Ideas, Identity, and Personality Tests: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Tommy Blanchard

Tommy Blanchard (former philosopher and cognitive scientist, current data scientist, blogger at Cognitive Wonderland) and I discuss the “sharpening of ideas” concept as it applies to a range of human endeavors of interest: analytic philosophy, forecasting, science, and statistics. We discuss the deflationary views of philosophy, analogies between judgmental forecasting and…