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Winners and takeaways from last year\'s prediction contest

Last year saw surging inflation, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a surprise victory for Democrats in the US Senate. Pundits, politicians, and economists were caught flat-footed by these developments. Did anyone get them right?

In a very technical sense, the single person who predicted 2022 most accurately was a 20-something data scientist at Amazon\\u2019s forecasting division.

I know this because last January, along with amateur statisticians Sam Marks and Eric Neyman, I solicited predictions from 508 people. This wasn\\u2019t a very creative or free-form exercise - contest participants assigned percentage chances to 71 yes-or-no questions, like \\u201cWill Russia invade Ukraine?\\u201d or \\u201cWill the Dow end the year above 35000?\\u201d The whole thing was a bit hokey and constrained - Nassim Taleb wouldn\\u2019t be amused - but it had the great advantage of allowing objective scoring.