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University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning

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  • Organization Name: University of Pennsylvania
  • Amount: $275,000

  • Award Date: October 2021

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $275,000 to the University of Pennsylvania to support a team led by Professor Philip Tetlock to develop a detailed plan for a possible large-scale forecasting tournament, to improve understanding of how to elicit accurate forecasts about distant and sometimes hard-to-define events.

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