Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Questions Resolved in November: Foreign Affairs

  • Mauricio Macri won the Argentinian Election (see my second post Argentine Election v2).  I gave him a 15% chance of winning initially in March, which I increased to 35% in June.  I think I may have under-reacted slightly to Macri's significant rise in the polls between those two dates.
  • The NLD won the Burmese Election (see my second post Burmese Election v2).  In June, I gave them a 55% chance of winning, which I increased to 73% just before the election.  These estimates may have been overly conservative, given the immense popularity the NLD seemed to enjoy.
  • Turkey held another parliamentary election in 2015, which I gave 85% odds to in my post Next Turkish Election Date
  • The Portuguese government has lost a confidence vote (see my post Portuguese Confidence Vote).  I said this had a 80% chance of happening.
  • The French State of Emergency was extended beyond the end of 2015.  I gave it a 90% chance of happening.
The last three questions were somewhat soft; although the events were unusual in historical context, they were completely expected by the time I made my prediction.

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