Future Index

Middle East

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

World conditions

An unusually active day

Attention43below usual−13.3 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 confidence0.77
5 sourcesPublic discussion3Search & activity2
13 items
Mood−68much more negative than usual−22.1 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 16% positive · 55% neutral · 29% negative — the figure is measured against its usual mix

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High confidence0.82
3 sourcesPublic discussion3
224 items
Turbulence61turbulent+6.7 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 confidence0.92
8 sourcesForecast markets3Public discussion3Search & activity2
83 items
Disagreement45some disagreement−10.1 ptsdown over 24 hours

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 confidence0.26
1 sourcePublic discussion1
132 items

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement41some movement−14.8 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 confidence0.89
3 sourcesForecast markets3
27 items

27 questions · 3 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 discussionLemmy

    Iran

    Attention rose sharply

    5.5× its usual variation — far larger than usual

    82mentions

    +51 mentionsup over the last 24 hours

  2. AttentionSearch & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews

    Türkiye

    Attention rose sharply

    4.4× its usual variation — much larger than usual

    25views

    +22 viewsup over a full day

    Future Index

  3. AttentionSearch & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews

    Jordan

    Attention rose

    2.4× its usual variation — larger than usual

    26views

    +22 viewsup over a full day

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2 further changes on this page — show them
  1. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionMastodon

    Israeli politics

    Discussion turned more positive sharply

    4.1× its usual variation — much larger than usual

    58

    +65.2 ptsup over the last 24 hours

  2. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionMastodon

    Saudi Arabia

    Discussion turned more negative

    2.8× its usual variation — larger than usual

    -32

    −27.9 ptsdown over the last 24 hours

119 changes were compared.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. EARLY ATTENTION

    Public discussion rose before the forecast contracts moved.

    Türkiye

    Forecast
    4.0 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract, 2.2× its usual daily move
    Public attention
    5.1σ from usual, 4 sources
    Observed order
    9 hours apart
    How this was detected

    Strength within early attention: 20%

    • 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
    +11.0 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
  2. about usual
    +8.2 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Politics
  3. below usual
    +4.3 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Conflict
1 further topic moved less — show it
  1. about usual
    +3.3 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 5 sources
    • Conflict

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

  1. 2 kinds of source are unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Looked up
  2. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Discussion
    • Reported
    • discounted — few accounts carried the activity

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.

The world by category

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
73%
Coverage
73% — 8 of 11 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Moderate
  • 18 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 2 more seen and not scored; 126 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 13 located subjects

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