say ninety, be right nine times

How it works

1A run of two-way calls. Pick one.
2Then say how sure you are — 50 means a coin toss, 100 means certain.
3There is no score. Being wrong is fine. Being wrong while certain is the thing.
4At the end, every call you rated 90 gets checked: were you right nine times in ten?

Why it works: you cannot see this on one question. Any single confident wrong answer is bad luck, and everyone has a story explaining it. Across a dozen calls the pattern stops being deniable — and it is almost always the same pattern, which is that 90 means about 70. That gap is why plans slip, why estimates are optimistic, and why the escalation nobody thought was likely happened anyway.

Set up

Works alone, or with a room agreeing each call out loud. The argument about the number is worth as much as the number.

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How sure are you

Pick one, then say how sure.
your curve

 

Said against actual

the diagonal is perfect calibration
perfectly calibrated you