
Will the first letter of Sunday's New York Times front page headline be a vowel or consonant?
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
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Settlement details:
As visible at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html.
The "Front page headline" is defined as the text accompanying and displayed above, below or beside the largest photograph on the front page of Sunday's New York Times print edition.
In the unlikely event the first character in the headline as described above is a character other than an English Alphabetic character (A-Z), the first alphabetic character in the headline will settle this market.
Suspend date: Sat 9th Aug 6:59pm PDT
Settlement date: Sun 10th Aug 11:48am PDT
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sat 9th Aug 6:59pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods:
Vowel: 35%, Consonant: 65%
Action history:
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Settlement details: As visible at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html. ... read all
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Comments (8)
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Obama? -- nah.
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<http://www.hubdub.com/m12874/Where_will_the_DJIA_go_on_Friday_August_8_2008>,
when he said, "This question will no longer be created by me after this edition.
Feel free to continue creating this market if you like."
While swilson didn't say it in the same way, that's the way I understood it -- and I do see how others could read it differently. (Electronic communication just *doesn't do it* sometimes!)
My "hit" was swilson wanted to create something "new" ... and perhaps thought that some users might be "looking" for the question next week ... in a similar way that some users look for the next "Gallup Polling" question, or a "Dow Jones" question, or even the next "Red Sox" question ;-)
In my view, if you, or anyone else, wanted to continue the "New York Times vowel or consonant" question, or kruijs' "Dow Jones version" question, it would be fine!
@swilson..i'm sorry for over reacting. please forgive me. no excuse i shouldn't have done that. have a nice day.
@newswrangler, you were correct.
@dieseldog, I'm not sure if your passion stems from loving the question, loving the freedom to create such a question or a little of both, but either way, I'm delighted you are so passionate about it.
I'm not saying that the question doesn't have a place here, it's just my decision to make a different kind of contribution to the site. In looking over my previous questions, a lot of them were silly little random things like this and I just wanted to move towards selecting more news oriented markets. It'd be great if someone took over the question, after all, it can grow up and move on, it'll always be my baby. I'd be so proud...
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