New Social Media Validates Predictions on Any Subject

Online, February 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Introducing a new kind of social media:
ShowYouKnowIt.com
The first social media platform with a memory

People have always made predictions. Sports fans do it. Movie fans do it. Scientists do it. Politicians do it-a lot! Everyone makes predictions.

And until now, no one has kept score.

Today that changes.

With the launch of ShowYouKnowIt.com, the first social media platform with a memory, anyone can quickly and easily make an official prediction on the Oscars, predict whether or not the discovery of the Higgs particle will occur this year, or predict the likelihood that his or her best friend's new romantic relationship will survive the next three months.

Every prediction-from the serious to the whimsical-receives a time stamp and a statistically categorized level of difficulty. Most importantly, every prediction is archived and "remembered". When the moment to evaluate the prediction comes due, the prognostication is quickly appraised as a success or failure, and the results are prominently posted on the ShowYouKnowIt.com website for the entire world to judge.

ShowYouKnowIt.com preserves past predictions made by politicians, celebrities, business leaders, and you. It audits and records each predictor's history of success (and failure), and provides detailed accounts of all prediction activity.

ShowYouKnowIt.com: the first social media platform with a memory.

Harnessing the Power of Social Media
ShowYouKnowIt.com uses the popularity of Facebook and Twitter to increase social awareness through the viral publishing of predictions and allowing viewers to rank those predictions and evaluate their success.

The popularity of individual predictions reflects general audience opinion. Ranked predictions measure sentiment associated with particular scenarios (e.g., the next participant to be voted off American Idol). Data derived from the predictions by ShowYouKnowIt.com creates an understanding of audience expectation richer and more nuanced than can be achieved by surveys alone.

Cultural Memory
This new social media responds to phenomena identified by sociologists as the attenuation of cultural memory. Since World War II, cultural amnesia has eroded direct ties with the past. The contemporary hyper-demand for up-to-date "news" in our fast-paced world jeopardizes our memory of historical events. By standardizing a process of acknowledging and evaluating prediction, ShowYouKnowIt.com elucidates the relation between past and present while pointing to the accuracy with which we predict the future.

Rhetoric
Politicians, political pundits, business leaders, and scientists use predictions as a form of rhetoric to move or persuade policy. Their pronouncements often polarize opinion by predicting extreme outcomes. Without a means to illuminate the success or failure of their predictions, so-called experts have no fear of accountability. ShowYouKnowIt.com imposes accountability by presenting an incontestable record of prognosticators' successes and failures.

Educational Methodology
Used in a variety of educational settings, case studies are ubiquitous. Despite varied uses, however, case studies tend to verify preconceived notions of teachers rather than generating hypotheses and new ideas. As a new educational methodology, ShowYouKnowIt.com explores open-ended scenarios free of didactic presumption. Its tests are real and are open for all to see.

Prediction and Intelligence
Prediction forms the basis of intelligence. Models of how the world works rise and fall on how accurately they predict future events. We can't survive without predictions. But we don't write them down, track them, or analyze them. ShowYouKnowIt.com does. How intelligent are you? ShowYouKnowIt.com provides some answers.

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