Future Index

Entertainment

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

World conditions

A fairly ordinary day

Attention40below usual−14.6 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 confidence0.75
5 sourcesPublic discussion3Search & activity2
28 items
Mood−34more negative than usual−15.1 ptsdown 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 32% positive · 52% neutral · 16% negative — the figure is measured against its usual mix

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High confidence0.89
3 sourcesPublic discussion3
274 items
Turbulence48active+9.5 ptsup 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 confidence0.90
7 sourcesForecast markets2Public discussion3Search & activity2
121 items
Disagreement46some disagreementNo comparison a day back yet

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

How Disagreement is calculated

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Low confidence0.31
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
141 items

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement40some movement±0.0 ptsunchanged 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 confidence0.78
2 sourcesForecast markets2
6 items

6 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

    Anime and manga

    Attention rose sharply

    7.5× its usual variation — far larger than usual

    +33 mentionsup over the last 24 hours

  2. AttentionPublic discussionHacker News

    Video games

    Attention rose

    2.2× its usual variation — larger than usual

    30mentions

    +29 mentionsup over the last 24 hours

  3. AttentionPublic discussionHacker News

    Music

    Attention rose sharply

    4.1× its usual variation — much larger than usual

    +5 mentionsup over a full day

1 further change on this page — show it
  1. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionLemmy

    Box office

    Discussion turned more positive

    2.2× its usual variation — larger than usual

    58

    +43.3 ptsup over the last 24 hours

160 changes were compared.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. NARRATIVE GAP

    News coverage rose while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    Superheroes and comics

    Public attention
    0.9σ from usual, 4 sources
    Coverage
    7 separate reports, 5.2σ from usual
    How this was detected

    Strength within narrative gap: 11%

    • Public discussionHacker News
    • Search & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews
    • Public discussionLemmy
    • Public discussionMastodon
    • The coverage baseline covers a short history.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
    • One of the signals is older than its usual update interval.
  2. QUIET MOVE

    Forecast probability moved while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    Film and TV awards

    Forecast
    4.0 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract, 3.3× its usual daily move
    Public attention
    0.8σ from usual, 5 sources
    How this was detected

    Strength within quiet move: 15%

    • Public discussionHacker News
    • Search & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews
    • Public discussionLemmy
    • Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    • Public discussionMastodon
    • Search & activityWikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)
    • One forecast contract moved.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.

Biggest movers

  1. about usual
    +3.7 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Entertainment
  2. about usual
    +3.7 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Entertainment
  3. about usual
    +3.2 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Entertainment
1 further topic moved less — show it
  1. about usual
    +2.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Entertainment

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

  1. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Read here
    • Reported
    • discounted — few accounts carried the activity
  2. 2 kinds of source are unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Looked up
    • Read here
    • discounted — few accounts carried the activity
  3. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Read here
    • discounted — few accounts carried the activity
3 further topics on this list — show them
  1. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Looked up
    • Reported
  2. 2 kinds of source are unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Read here
    • Reported
  3. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Looked up

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
72%
Coverage
64% — 7 of 11 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Moderate
  • 6 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 53 items carried no identification
  • 3 of 6 regions, over 5 located subjects

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