On October 2nd, Colombian voters took to the polls to determine the fate of their government’s historic peace agreement meant to end 52 years of war with FARC rebels. The accord appeared likely to win approval, as polls showed that Colombians would vote “yes” in the plebiscite by a margin of almost two to one. […]
“Before 1 January 2017, will Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte proclaim martial law?” The above question, posed in our Good Judgment Open public forecasting tournament, seems fairly straightforward and as though it has been taken directly from the headlines. But, in reality, much meticulous drafting and an intensive question review process is going on behind the scenes by […]
At the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, John Sides continues his series of articles highlighting our US Election forecasting challenge with a post about our question on North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s re-election chances. McCrory has seen his fair share of controversy recently, as Sides notes: The controversies during McCrory’s tenure are many. Early on, a spate of […]
Since mid-June, we’ve been asking forecasters on Good Judgment Open a question about whether SpaceX, the private aerospace manufacturing and transportation company founded by Elon Musk (also of Tesla fame) would launch their new Falcon Heavy rocket into orbit before March 1st, 2017. The Falcon Heavy rocket, powered by a combination of three of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, […]
What will the state of the world be in 2017? The Arab Strategy Forum is collaborating with Good Judgment Inc to launch a forecasting challenge on the future of the global economy, key geopolitical tensions, political ruptures in the Middle East, the world’s response to the refugee crisis and much more. Join the challenge and […]
Over at The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, John Sides highlights the current consensus on our Good Judgment Open question about Donald Trump’s campaign spending. Since the question opened in June, the crowd’s forecast has gradually shifted towards indicating that Trump’s campaign will spend a historically low amount of cash prior to election day.
At the Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage blog, John Sides reviews the Good Judgment Open consensus on several questions about the GOP’s chances of success in the House and Senate. Yes, the odds are against the Republicans’ retaining control of the Senate, though they will likely continue to control the House. But it’s still not clear that Trump is […]
As we did in July, we’re giving away three copies of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction signed by Philip E. Tetlock to anyone who forecasts on Good Judgment Open in September. To enter, simply join GJ Open and make a forecast in the month of September. In the first week of October, we’ll randomly choose […]
On July 5th, we sent a short feedback survey to over 26,000 forecasters who had joined Good Judgment Open since the site opened to the public in September 2015, hoping to learn more about how our forecasters use GJ Open and what they hope to gain from participating in a massively open online forecasting site. Since […]
Eleven months after the launch of Good Judgment Open, our first challenge has come to a close. The Economist’s World in 2016 Challenge officially closed on August 1, 2016, a few weeks after the nomination of Donald Trump as the presidential candidate for the Republican party. In total, 6,485 forecasters joined the challenge to forecast twenty-five […]