Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II
That's what I thought, it does make some sense for the stock market because humans decide whether they buy or sell stock and that dictates the course. But in case of tragedies etc, there would need to be many humans who know about the tragedy before for it to reliably predict the tragedy.

Maybe it did what the CIA didn't prior to 9/11 and listened to Al Quaida chatting about their plans.