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Scoring, Strengths & Achievements
As you participate in thought experiments, you’ll earn idea points, develop your forecasting strengths, and move up the ranks of the Lab.
Idea Points
You earn points when other players build on your forecast. The more your forecasts inspire and provoke others, the more points you’ll earn.
You can view the cards with the highest idea points on the Great Ideas page
| Someone builds on your micro-forecast | 1 points |
| Your micro-forecast is marked as "Super-Interesting" | 20 points |
Strengths
Your strengths increase each time you make a micro-forecast.
| ROBOTICS | What will chemists contribute to robotics over the next decade? |
| SUSTAINABILITY | What will chemists contribute to sustainability over the next decade? |
| CHECK THIS OUT... | Your skill expanding on other participants' ideas. What's already happening in this zone? |
| NO WAY! | Your skill in arguing an Alternative Outcome. Disagree? Tell us why. |
| COULDN'T YOU ALSO? | Your skill in telling us about a variation on this idea. Tell a story more relevant to your work or your life. |
| TELL ME MORE | Your skill in asking a follow-up question. |
Lab Levels
The more idea points you earn, the faster you’ll level up.
| Level | Forecasting Points Required |
| Novice | 0 |
| Keen | 1-4 |
| Inspired | 5-19 |
| Brilliant | 20-42 |
| Luminous | 43-79 |
| Genius | 80-179 |
| Extreme Genius | 180-299 |
| Beyond Extreme Genius | 300-424 |
| Legend | >425 |
Achievements
If you really apply your imagination, you’ll unlock forecasting achievements. Here are some of the achievements available:
Automatically unlocked
| HIGH SCORE: | Most points earned in an experiment |
| PROVOCATEUR: | Started the longest chain-reaction in an experiment |
| THE WORKS: | Contributed all five types of micro-forecasts in a single experiment |
Awarded by lab guides
| TED TALK: | Micro-forecast most worthy of an 18-minute elaboration* |
| MACARTHUR GENIUS: | Micro-forecast most worthy of five-year funding** |
| HAWKING: | Micro-forecast with the clearest sense of the very big picture |
| FEYNMAN: | Micro-forecast with the clearest sense of the very small picture |
| VENTER: | Micro-forecast that makes the biggest paradigm shift |
| HEISENBERG: | The player that had the biggest impact of the conversation |
*does not come with an actual invitation to present at the TED conference
**does not come with $500,000 funding
