Entry Posted April 1, 2009

http://wrongtomorrow.com/predictions This is great: holds public prognosicators to account by recording their predictions. A bit like the Long Now Foundation’s Long Predictions, except that it accepts user-submitted predictions. (Curiously, no environmental predictions have been entered yet.) 21:05

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Athensboy's Blog (athensboy.wordpress.com):
… are even more streams of media that need to fill time. What better way than with pundits and predictors? My prediction is that we will see more and more of this activity. If viewed as a game, it is kind of fun. Don’t you want to keep up? See:http://wrongtomorrow.com/predictionsMy comment: I’ve noticed that the number of people predicting the stock market has shrunk. Not that many predicting who will win the World Series or the World Cup, or even the Tour de France, anymore. I haven’t heard of office pools predicting the date of Kim …

Devils Workshop (www.devilsworkshop.org):
… we ever gone back to check if any of these foretelling’s actually came true? I suppose not! We often tend to read today and forget tomorrow, and hardly anyone keeps track! But now, there is an easy way to keep a check. This really cool website -Wrong Tomorrow: Time vs. Pundits- does just that for you. More about this site… This website is run by a guy called Maciej Ceglowski. His site records and keeps track of the predictions of the future made by famous people, and over time, checks and confirms if any of them ever came true. How do …

Frolix-8 (fraser.typepad.com):
… than Voss & Mauser's fake one." The Mold of Yancy - "After 8 years lost in The Sea of Holes... America emerges into the Sea of Hope with a new president at the helm. Wear your hope on your sleeves, literally." The World Jones Made -"Within a year, we will have bin Laden. "--- Dick-Headlines ---   It's Like Blade Runner, By Way Of Uwe Boll   Pakistan to America: Give Us the Killer Drones   …

Sore Eyes (soreeyes.org):
… knows what they’re talking about. It’s a nice idea, but despite the site’s claim that each prediction needs to make an empirically testable claim about the world some of the predictions are too ill-defined to be testable. Forexample: author: matt simmons prediction: “We are three, six, maybe nine months away from an [oil] price shock.” Is there a formal definition of an oil price shock? If prices suddenly double over the course of December 2009 that would …

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