Reader William Raftery has tallied last year’s predictions.
1. Andrew Stuttaford
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 14 out of 17. 82.35%
2. Jonah Goldberg
Serious predictions (1-6, 9, 12 & 13) 6 out of 9. 66.67%
Humor/For sake of joke predictions (I hope that’s what they were; 7, 8, 10,
11,14). 0 of 5. 0%
3. Kate O’Beirne
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 4 out of 8. 50%
4. Michael Graham
Serious predictions (1-5, 9, 14, 18, 19, 21) 4.5 out of 10. 45%
Humor/For sake of joke predictions (I hope that’s what they were; 4, 6, 7,
8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20). .5 of 11. 4.55%
5. Rick Brookhiser
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 3.83 out of 10. 38.33%
6. Kathryn Jean Lopez
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 1 out of 4. 25%
7. Hugh Hewitt
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 4 out of 18. 22.22%
8. Peter Robinson
Serious predictions (All of them, really) 0 out of 2. 0%
9. Clifford D. May
Warned “Some exceedingly unlikely predictions for 2004″ and true enough,
none of them happened.
0 for a slew. 0%
I’ll provide his full breakdown to authors upon request.





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