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Foundations6 min read

What is calibration — and why it's the most important cognitive skill you're not training

Calibration is the alignment between your confidence and your accuracy. A well-calibrated person who says they're 80% confident is right about 80% of the time. Most people are wildly miscalibrated — and don't know it.

April 3, 2026Read article →

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Research8 min read

Metacognition vs intelligence: why the smarter people get, the worse their blind spots can be

High intelligence correlates with faster pattern recognition — but also with more sophisticated rationalisation of incorrect beliefs. Metacognition is the countermeasure.

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Cognitive bias5 min read

The Dunning-Kruger effect is not what most people think it is

The popular framing — that incompetent people are overconfident — misrepresents the original research. Here's what the data actually shows, and why the nuance matters.

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Practical7 min read

How to actually train better decision-making (not just read about it)

Books on decision-making don't improve decisions. Deliberate practice with feedback does. Here's what that looks like — and why the feedback loop is everything.

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Practical4 min read

Why you should start giving confidence intervals, not just answers

Expressing uncertainty as a range rather than a point estimate makes you more accurate, more trusted, and more useful. It's also a trainable habit.

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Cognitive bias9 min read

The 5 cognitive biases that actually affect your daily decisions (and how to train against each one)

There are 200+ named cognitive biases — but most of them are edge cases. These 5 are the ones consistently linked to consequential errors in professional and personal decisions.

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Product6 min read

How we use AI to score reasoning quality — not just right or wrong

MindFrame uses Claude to read your reasoning text and score it on a 0–10 scale, independent of whether your answer was correct. Here's how we built it and why it matters.

April 3, 2026Read →

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