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Within five years, Gwern will be hired as a “statistician columnist” by a mainstream blog; “mainstream blog” is defined as a blog with no less than 1/6th of the annual traffic theverge.com currently gets.

Created by halfwit on 2013-07-13; known on 2018-07-14; judged wrong by enolan on 2018-08-27.

  • halfwit estimated 20% on 2013-07-13
  • halfwit changed the deadline from “on 2018-07-13” and changed their prediction from “Within five years, Gwern will be hired as a “statistician columnist” by a mainstream blog; “mainstream blog” is defined as a blog with no less than 1/6th of annual the traffic theverge.com currently gets.” on 2013-07-13
  • gwern estimated 10% on 2013-07-14
  • Jayson Virissimo estimated 5% on 2013-07-15
  • RandomThinker estimated 10% on 2013-07-16
  • Oscar_Cunningham said “Does this obtain if Gwern is hired by a newspaper with an online/blog component?on 2013-07-29
  • PseudonymousUser estimated 10% on 2013-11-14
  • olivia estimated 10% on 2013-11-15
  • Nithi estimated 2% on 2014-01-23
  • PseudonymousUser estimated 13% on 2016-03-17
  • Andrew MacFie estimated 5% on 2016-04-04
  • JoshuaZ said “How much traffic did theverge get in 2013?on 2016-04-04
  • enolan estimated 2% on 2018-06-08
  • enolan   judged this prediction wrong on 2018-08-27.