This issue: Booster predictions compared, plus scoring last week's CPI forecasts.
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So much for peak inflation...
Last week, in the first ever Nonrival email, we asked whether August numbers would show that inflation had peaked. They didn't. The CPI rose 0.1% month over month, while the core CPI (which excludes prices for energy and food) was up 0.6%. Brookings has five key takeaways from the report. And we can now score our first-ever forecast.
We asked what the likelihood was that the CPI would rise in August, month over month. The average forecast among readers was 34%, meaning the group on average thought there was only about a one-in-three chance of a month-over-month rise. Since the CPI did rise, higher forecasts score better.
You said there was a [090422_FINAL GOES HERE]% chance of that happening. That means your forecast was closer to the actual outcome than [090422_BRIER_RANK GOES HERE]% of readers.
Will Americans get boosted?
This week, Nonrival asked whether Americans would get the new bivalent boosters. Specifically, we asked: How likely is it that the US administers more than 20 million doses of Covid vaccine in September?
You said there was a [091222_FINAL GOES HERE]% chance of that happening.
What other readers said
You predicted that the average of readers' forecast would be [091222_CROWD GOES HERE]%. The actual average was 24%. That means you were closer than [091222_CROWD_RANK GOES HERE]% of readers.
Perspectives on boosters
Here are some readers' justifications for their booster forecasts...
The case that the US could reach 20 million does in September...
And the case that it's unlikely...
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