Future Index

Politics in Latin America

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

World conditions

An unusually active day

Attention35below usual−6.8 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 confidence0.76
5 sourcesSearch & activity2Public discussion3
17 items
Mood+29more positive than usual+4.8 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 40% positive · 44% neutral · 16% negative — the figure is measured against its usual mix

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High confidence0.79
3 sourcesPublic discussion3
50 items
Turbulence63turbulent+21.0 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 markets2Search & activity2Public discussion3
76 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 Movement42some movement+4.4 ptsup 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
12 items

12 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. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionLemmy

    Venezuela

    Discussion turned more positive sharply

    6.6× its usual variation — far larger than usual

    61

    +57.3 ptsup over the last 24 hours

  2. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionMastodon

    Brazil

    Discussion turned more negative

    2.8× its usual variation — larger than usual

    -15

    −25.0 ptsdown over the last 24 hours

96 changes were compared.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. EARLY ATTENTION

    Public discussion rose before the forecast contracts moved.

    Brazil

    Forecast
    59.0 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract, 3.2× its usual daily move
    Public attention
    11.5σ from usual, 5 sources
    Observed order
    21 hours apart
    How this was detected

    Strength within early attention: 100%

    • 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
    +15.0 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
  2. below usual
    +4.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
  3. about usual
    +3.6 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
1 further topic moved less — show it
  1. below usual
    +2.0 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

  1. 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
65%
Coverage
64% — 7 of 11 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Moderate
  • 6 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 2 more seen and not scored; 12 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 17 located subjects

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