Future Index

Conflict in Asia-Pacific

The same four readings, over the topics this product tracks under conflict in asia-pacific. Every panel below is ranked within that selection rather than filtered out of a world-wide ranking.

World conditions

A fairly ordinary day

Attention55about usual−6.7 ptsdown over 24 hours

Where the Attention figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Attention is calculated

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High confidence0.71
5 sourcesSearch & activity2Public discussion3
6 items
Mood−8about as usual+2.1 ptsup over 24 hours

Where the Mood figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Mood is calculated

Right now 11% positive · 78% neutral · 10% negative — the figure is measured against its usual mix

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High confidence0.71
3 sourcesPublic discussion3
47 items
Turbulence33calm−15.9 ptsdown over 24 hours

Where the Turbulence figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Turbulence is calculated

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High confidence0.88
7 sourcesForecast markets2Search & activity2Public discussion3
35 items
DisagreementNot yet

Fewer than two independent communities have said anything about this part of the world, and one community cannot disagree with itself.

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement47some movement−33.2 ptsdown over 24 hours

Where the Forecast Movement figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Forecast Movement is calculated

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High confidence0.80
2 sourcesForecast markets2
10 items

10 questions · 2 sources

Forecast Movement measures how much expectations moved, not whether they moved towards any particular outcome. Why there is no single score, why what we can see is reported separately.

Today in brief — the last 24 hours on one page

What changed today

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

  1. AttentionPublic discussionHacker News

    North Korea

    Attention rose

    3.5× its usual variation — larger than usual

    +19 mentionsup over a full day

  2. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionLemmy

    Taiwan

    Discussion turned more negative

    3.3× its usual variation — larger than usual

    -93

    −106.8 ptsdown over the last 24 hours

45 changes were compared.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. EARLY ATTENTION

    Public discussion rose before the forecast contracts moved.

    North Korea

    Forecast
    3.6 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract, 2.2× its usual daily move
    Public attention
    5.4σ from usual, 4 sources
    Observed order
    4 hours apart
    How this was detected

    Strength within early attention: 18%

    • Public discussionHacker News
    • Search & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews
    • Public discussionLemmy
    • Public discussionMastodon
    • Forecast marketsPolymarket
    • One forecast contract moved.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.

Biggest movers

  1. about usual
    +2.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
    • Conflict

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

No topic is unusually busy across enough kinds of source to be listed. This panel is empty when the tracked topics are at their usual levels — it is not a reading of the world at large.

Where sources disagree

No topic currently shows a material difference between how much is being published about it and how much it is being discussed. A comparison needs both sides: a topic only one of them has anything to say about is not a disagreement.

Data conditions

How well this site can currently see. None of this is a reading of the world, and none of it changes the figures above.

Measurement quality
62%
Coverage
64% — 7 of 11 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Limited
  • 3 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 23 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 6 located subjects

How these are worked out, and why they are kept separate from the readings