Created Sat 19th Apr 2008 6:10am PST by

rohan

Will the Japanese promise to stop whaling by 2010?

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Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

Forecast history %

Yes

12%

88%

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Activity: H$1,977
Predictions: 16
Comments: 3

Suspend date: Fri 31st Dec 2010 11:59pm PST (1 year to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 15%, No: 85%

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Predictions (16)

4 weeks ago

lisa_lou Level 4, Whiz-kid (H$1,317)

predicted No (H$100 at 88%)

35 weeks ago

eytan77 Level 1, Newbie (H$1,014)

predicted No (H$100 at 88%)

1 year ago

nipperino1 Level 7, Pro (H$3,327)

predicted Yes (H$100 at 13%)

1 year ago

erichiggs Level 4, Whiz-kid (H$1,392)

predicted Yes (H$20 at 13%)

1 year ago

willy

predicted No (H$20 at 88%)

Comments (3)

rohan

"Will the Japanese promise to stop whaling in 2008/2009/2010?"

posted 1 year ago

chris

We need to stay an english language site until we've got category editors who can understand other languages, and a way to display the questions intelligently (I was thinking this through earlier on quite by chance). Otherwise who'll be able to keep an eye on you???

posted 1 year ago

gingerboi Level 14, Prophet (H$127,212)

..........

posted 1 year ago

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