2008: countries, events and a new index
The July 2008 incident: when an index needs an audit trail
A reported attack on the early GodIndex raises a lasting question: how can readers tell an authentic shift in responses from a disruption to the system?
Britain and Germany: what a country rating cannot prove
A July 2008 headline turned different country scores into a provocative question about god. The surviving figures are interesting; the leap from a score to a national judgement is not justified.
When GodIndex and the US Index moved in opposite directions
A short July 2008 note links opposing index movements to new participation from Asia. It is an early clue that audience composition and weighting mattered to GodIndex.
Football, fortune and a country rating: the July 2008 story
The original post used football to explain a gap between the UK and German views. It is a compact example of how an attractive story can outrun the available evidence.
Georgia, August 2008: one event, different country curves
The Georgia-war commentary compared responses across countries. Its most useful legacy is the question of how a shared event can produce different patterns in a self-selecting audience.
When RateTheGod published its first performance report
The first report moved the project from a changing homepage display to a retrospective account. That change in format matters for understanding what survives today.
The financial crisis and GodIndex: reading the September note
The September 2008 article linked the financial crisis to falling ratings. It also became part of a later debate about whether the site’s own headlines could influence its results.
October 2008: the GodIndex low and the danger of a missing minus
The original October article reported a low near −1.8. A later archived homepage displayed a still lower value. Reading the dates and units correctly changes the story.
2009: reports, continuity and the chart’s next move
The second report announcement: what was planned in January 2009
A surviving announcement names four events for a planned follow-up report. It is evidence of an editorial plan, not proof that the full report was published.
The 2009 call for help: sustaining a public internet experiment
In May 2009 the original site invited people with useful skills to get involved. That small announcement reveals an important part of the project’s history: the work needed to keep it running.
July 2009: revisiting the GodIndex “bottleneck”
The final recovered blog post used technical-analysis language to describe GodIndex. Its charts survive, but a visually persuasive pattern is not the same thing as a tested forecast.
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