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What will be the US unemployment rate for April 2020?

Resolved :14.716.9

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Community Prediction16.9 (14.9 - 19.3)

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	<1	lower 25%	median	upper 75%	>40
community	0.8%	14.91	16.93	19.26	0.4%
My Prediction	—	—	—	—	—

Lower bound	community	My Prediction
<1	0.8%	—
Quartiles
lower 25%	14.91	—
median	16.93	—
upper 75%	19.26	—
Upper bound
>40	0.4%	—

What was the final result?14.7

Community Baseline Score

68.3

Community Peer Score

13.4

Authors:

metani

Opened:

Mar 29, 2020

Closes:

May 7, 2020

Resolves:

May 8, 2020

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