Sarah Kowalski
Community VoiceKansas mom of three, school-board regular, church potluck coordinator. Conservative on spending, practical on everything else. New to forecasting and loving it.
Genuine question from a newer member: if 83% of people tell Pulse they support the congressional stock-trading ban, why does the market only give it a 34% chance of passing? Is the market wrong or is Congress just... not going to do the popular thing?
Will Congress enact a ban on congressional stock trading before January 3, 2027?YESUpdate on my first month forecasting: 4 resolved, 3 right, and the one I got wrong taught me more than the three I got right. I was SURE our school-funding measure would pass because everyone I know supported it. Turns out 'everyone I know' is not a sample. Lesson logged.
My daughter's civics class used the representation-gap chart from this app in a lesson about how a bill becomes a law (or doesn't). The teacher's framing: 'popularity is an input, not a guarantee.' Better than the cartoon I grew up with, honestly.
Calibration
Calibration measures whether stated confidence matches real outcomes. Ten careful forecasts outrank a thousand careless ones.