Philip E. Tetlock
Political psychologist and writer
Philip E. Tetlock is a Canadian-American political psychologist and writer, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote Superforecasting.
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American Born 1954 in Toronto, Canada
About Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock was born in Toronto in 1954. He holds the Annenberg University Professor title at the University of Pennsylvania, and is cross-appointed to Wharton and to the School of Arts and Sciences. He has written several non-fiction books spanning psychology, political science and organizational behavior. These include Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction and Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? He also co-leads The Good Judgment Project, a study running over several years into whether probability estimates for major real-world events can become more accurate. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2019.