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Idle thought: the decision training espoused by Superforecasting is better suited for investors; the decision training used by the Marines is better suited for operators.
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Why might I think this? Current suspicion: “you need a different kind of decision making training if you can take action to generate information.” Superforecasters and investors often can’t take action when making a prediction/investing. Marines and operators can.
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There is an interesting sub-point here, which is “how do you train lower level commanders to improvise?” Schmitt talks about how the adoption of Warfighting led him to develop Tactical Decision Games as a training methodology:
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From Warfighting, two passages that outline the shape of decision making (and decision training) in war:
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