Which of the Following Statements Regarding Calibration Is FALSE

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding calibration is FALSE?

• A)A calibrated person is one who,when asked a large number of questions,will get about as many correct as he or she expected.
• B)An uncalibrated person who is systematically overconfident may be 90% confident of his or her correctness over a large number of questions,where in the end that person will only get 60% or 70% of them correct.
• C)Calibration is achieved through the use of heuristics,which improves the quality of experts' estimates.
• D)If the environment is predictable and an expert has learned through calibration training to identify the situations where intuition misleads him or her,then the feedback will have corrected the expert's intuitions.

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