If you want to predict the future you can waste your money paying a pythoness, or you can do something much more scientific: turn to The Simpsons …
Throughout their more than 30 seasons, and more than 700 chapters, The Simpson have made many predictions of the future…, and many of them have been successful.
The Trump presidency, Disney’s purchase of Fox, the Higgs boson, and even local predictions, such as presenter Susana Griso interviewing someone on a volcano, with a neck scarf included … (see opening photo ).
They’re all fun coincidences, but a british casino has taken it so seriously that pays almost 6,000 euros to watch all the episodes of The Simpsons in 2 months, to predict the future.
This company wants to analyze the trends in the plots of The Simpsons, to try to predict what will happen in 2022.
You have created the job Analyst of the series The Simpsons, and pay 5,000 pounds (about 5,965 euros) for see all the episodes of The Simpsons.
In the 8-hour workday, they are viewed about 24 chapters a day, to add 35.5 hours a week, for two months. With a free box of donuts a week.
To save you the calculation, the payment is about 8 euros per chapter.
It takes two months of working hours to view the more than 700 episodes of The Simpsons, a figure that was reached last August. And there are already signed at least two more seasons …
But the analyst’s job is not just about watching the chapters. You have to write a small report on each of them, highlighting key scenes of the plot that can be used to predict the future.
Then a group of experts will try to choose which ones could actually be done in 2022.
A curious story that sounds like an advertising campaign. But it will be interesting to see how many of your predictions will come true …