What percentage of U.S. news articles about AI will be about privacy and security between July 1 and December 31, 2021, inclusive?

Started Jan 06, 2021 02:00PM UTC
Closed Jul 01, 2021 03:59AM UTC
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Related question. This question was previously issued for the period June 15 to August 15, 2020. You can view it here. The crowd's mean forecast  was 1.15%, and the correct answer was 1.3%. Those two months were not representative of the second half of 2020 overall, however, which was 0.7%.

Data and resolution details. This question is based on data from Nexis Metabase, a corpus of global news articles on a variety of topics. An article is on the topic of AI if it mentions the term "artificial intelligence"; and it's on the topic of privacy and security if it mentions the terms "privacy" and "security." 

Through April 17, 2021, the value for 2021 H1 is 0.56%. 

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Question clarification
Issued on 04/18/21 12:09am
Through April 17, 2021, the value for 2021 H1 is 0.56%.
Resolution Notes

The answer is 0.56%.

Possible Answer Correct? Final Crowd Forecast
Less than 0.45% 6%
Between 0.45% and 0.7%, inclusive 18%
More than 0.7% but less than or equal to 0.95% 32%
More than 0.95% but less than or equal to 1.2% 21%
More than 1.2% 23%

Crowd Forecast Profile

Participation Level
Number of Forecasters 81
Average for questions older than 6 months: 58
Number of Forecasts 189
Average for questions older than 6 months: 205
Accuracy
Participants in this question vs. all forecasters better than average

Most Accurate

Relative Brier Score

1.
-0.314322
2.
-0.220497
3.
-0.219805
4.
-0.217563
5.
-0.20512

Consensus Trend

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