Will something CRAZY happen in October?
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This market resolves if, during October, there is a Google search term which spikes like crazy. This is determined based on the following method:

  • On Google Trends, pick "Worldwide" and "Web Search".

  • Pick a search term that you want to check for craziness.

  • Pick "google" as the search term to compare to.

  • Look at the end-of-day scores for "google" and [term]. The [term] : google ratio is the craziness score (C).

  • If on one of the days, C(term, day) > 0.5, and there exists a day in the previous 30 days such that C(term, day) / C(term, past_day) > 5, then this term is indeed CRAZY, and the market resolves YES.

Important exception: scheduled events which are fully expected to trend ahead of time do not count as crazy, even if they meet the craziness criteria. This includes things like:

  • Olympics

  • World Cup

  • Big movie releases

  • U.S. presidential elections

Some events in recent years which did meet the craziness criteria are:

  • COVID-19 pandemic

  • January 6 capitol riots

  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

  • Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

  • Death of Queen Elizabeth II

  • Israel-Gaza war

  • Trump assassination attempt

  • Biden dropping out of election

  • Iran-Israel war

  • Charlie Kirk assassination

Due to the partially subjective criteria, I am not betting in this market.

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@ItsMe I like this riff a lot - good criteria!

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