Computer scientists predicted a 3-1 victory in the United States

The fact that soccer lives not least from its unpredictability and experts and laymen often missed in their forecasts, you have seen again at the semi-final between the United States and Brazil. The result of a lightning survey among students, scientists and professors of the Hassan-Plattner Institute in Potsdam can be regarded as a good omen for the now world-wide final between the United States and Argentina.


Among the IT experts it is largely agreed that the American national team will enter their fourth World Championship title next Sunday. Of the 730 participants in the survey, 31 percent predicted a 3: 1, 22 percent predicted a close 2: 1, and another 15 percent had a confident 2-0. Whether this prediction came from logic or from patriotism does not matter: what counts is that it is true.