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Trump's approval rating on Friday 21 August: above or below 38.7%?
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The verdict

Trump's approval rating on Friday 21 August: above or below 38.7%?

Trump's approval rating on Friday 21 August: above or below 38.7%? 651 verified humans answered. Crowd ran well above market on Above approval, but the result sided with the market.

60%Crowd on Above
22%Market price
+38Points of divergence

How the crowd voted

651 verified humans · one human, one vote
AboveCrowd’s pick60%392 voters
BelowWhat happened40%259 voters
Below won, so 40% of the crowd called it — a plurality of 60% did not. The market had Above at 22%.

Where the crowd split from the market

Market depth: deep
Market
22%
60%
Crowd
+38 ppts

The crowd was more confident in Above than the betting price implied. That gap is the interesting part of this poll, and it went against the result.

The market price is a yardstick, not a recommendation. The crowd’s read is sentiment, not a prediction or financial advice.

What the crowd was thinking

Scenario 1Crowd’s pick
60%392 voters
Above

A clear crowd majority saw Trump's approval clearing the threshold, confident the rating would hold above the line the market had largely written off.

Scenario 2Came true
40%259 voters
Below

A minority of voters aligned with the market's dominant view, expecting approval to fall short of the threshold and stay under the line.

How well calibrated was the crowd?Brier score, conviction and full methodology0.72
Brier score
0.72

0 is a perfect confident call, 0.25 a coin flip. Higher means the crowd leaned away from what happened.

Conviction
1-in-2

The odds the crowd’s own split implied for its top pick. Shorter odds mean more conviction.

Ballots correct
259 of 651

Ballots whose pick matched the result. Computed from the crowd’s own vote split — no betting market involved.

Crowd sentiment is shown only after a poll closes, never mid-vote. “Crowd called it” means the crowd’s top pick matched the result; it is not a claim the crowd is right in general. Aggregate data from World ID voters — a crowd view, not a prediction or advice.