Future Index

Politics in North America

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

World conditions

An unusually active day

Attention85elevated13.7 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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Medium confidence0.65
3 sourcesSearch & activity2Public discussion1
8 items
Mood+11more positive than usual9.5 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

28% positive · 56% neutral · 16% negative

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High confidence0.85
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
918 items
Turbulence48active16.1 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 confidence0.94
5 sourcesForecast markets2Search & activity2Public discussion1
326 items
Disagreement36some disagreement29.5 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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Medium confidence0.41
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
832 items

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement61moving3.1 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 confidence0.94
2 sourcesForecast markets2
84 items

84 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.

The last 24 hours, without the explanations

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.

250 changes were compared. Not shown: 138 with nothing to compare against, 111 within their usual range.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. QUIET MOVE

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

    Donald Trump

    Forecast
    8.0 pts over 24 hours, across 2 contracts
    Public attention
    0.5σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 40%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
  2. QUIET MOVE

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

    US state politics

    Forecast
    8.5 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract
    Public attention
    0.8σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 24%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • One forecast contract moved.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.

Biggest movers

  1. about usual
    +15.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Politics
  2. unusually high
    +9.6 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Politics
  3. below usual
    +6.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 2 sources
    • Politics

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

  1. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Looked up
    • 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.

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
76%
Coverage
60% — 6 of 10 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Moderate
  • 18 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 3 more seen and not scored; 296 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 8 located subjects

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