2019 predictions
Inspired by Slate Star Codex predictions.
You can see my results for 2018.
Timestamped checksum of this post is referenced here.
World events
- North Korea’s government will survive the year without large civil war/revolt: 99%
- No terrorist attack in the USA will kill > 100 people: 80%
- …in any First World country: 80%
- Assad will remain President of Syria: 95%
- Syria’s civil war will not end this year: 70%
- ISIS not continue to exist as a state entity in Iraq/Syria: 50%
- Ukraine will neither break into all-out war or get neatly resolved: 95%
- No major earthquake (>100 deaths) in Europe: 99%
- No major earthquake (>10000 deaths) in the world: 99%
Europe
- No country currently in Euro or EU announces new plan to leave: 80%
- France does not declare plan to leave EU: 99%
- Germany does not declare plan to leave EU: 99%
- Fewer refugees admitted 2019 than 2018: 95%
Economics
- Bitcoin will not end the year higher than $20000: 99%
- Bitcoin will end the year lower than $10000: 80%
- Dow Jones will not fall > 10% this year: 90%
- Dow Jones will fall < 5% this year: 80%
- Dow Jones will fall > 5% this year: 60%
Czech Republic
- Miloš Zeman remains President at the end of 2019: 70%
- Czech GDP growth lower than in 2018: 80%
- Czech unemployment to be lower at end of year than beginning: 60% Q3 2018, 2.3%
- Czech Republic will not decide to leave EU: 80%
- Czech Republic will not decide to leave NATO: 95%
- No major flood in Prague (>3000 m^3/s): 90%
- No flood in Prague (>1000 m^3/s): 80%
- Andrej Babiš will be Czech prime minister by the end of 2019: 70%
- Andrej Babiš’s government will be voted credible: 70%
Personal
- I will travel inside the (continental) Europe only in 2018: 60%
- I will not have been hospitalized: 95%
- I will not attend a wedding this year: 60%
- I will not use proprietary social network application: 90%
- I will have run at least 300 km in 2019: 80%
Notes
Using the same model as before (I used the results to adjust previous percentage, estimate) and filtering only up to date claims. No news statements were added.