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Outside View / Reference Class Forecasting

Chapter: Chapter 8 — Tools, Techniques & Practices ACT/GTM: ACT Command: /redteam outside-view

Base-rate thinking: what happened in the reference class of similar past attempts?

Forecasts, timelines, budgets, “this time is different” claims.

Name reference class → base rates → justified adjustments → compare to inside view.

Handbook v10 command technique. See skill/reference/extensions-catalog.md.

Part of The Red Team Handbook, Version 10, maintained by Curate Labs — successor to the defunct UFMCS v9.0 work. See SOURCE.md and NOTICE.md.