One question a day, for everyone on Earth
Every day at 13:00 UTC one question goes live. The same question for a student in Mumbai, a nurse in São Paulo, and a retiree in Osaka. You get ten seconds and one vote. No account, no feed, no comments.
The reveal
Results stay sealed until 13:00 UTC. Then the split opens: how the world voted, country by country, age bracket by age bracket, profession by profession. That is the whole product. You answer while the poll is open, and once it unlocks you come back to find out whether you think like Japan or like Brazil, like software engineers or like farmers.
The rules
- One question per day, worldwide, in the same 24 hours.
- Ten seconds on the clock. Run past it and your vote still counts; the clock is there to keep answers honest.
- Voting closes at 13:00 UTC, the moment the reveal opens.
- Vote before the close to keep your streak. Every 7 straight days banks a grace day (you can hold 2), and a grace day covers a missed day automatically.
- Streaks live in your browser. A signed backup code moves them to another device; days are counted in UTC, so two late-evening votes can land on one UTC day.
- Before you see anything, you can predict which answer wins the global vote. Correct predictions build your record.
- Side against the winner and land under 30% of the world, and the reveal marks you a contrarian, once at least 20 votes are in. Wear it however you like.
Languages
The question runs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, French, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Turkish, Russian, and Chinese. Your browser's language picks the version; everyone votes in the same poll either way.
The mission
Make humanity wiser about itself.
Most people go a lifetime knowing how their street thinks, maybe their city. Every day this site puts one question to the whole planet and shows everyone the same answer: how Finland split from Brazil, how nineteen-year-olds split from their grandparents, how nurses split from farmers. Seeing that daily does something small and permanent: your certainty gets company. Wisdom, as far as we can tell, starts exactly there.
The long bet is immodest and we are keeping it. A species that checks its assumptions against eight billion neighbors, one question at a time, ends up wiser than one that never asks. Run that long enough and humans become a species that truly knows itself, and a species that knows itself will be hard to beat, anywhere in the universe.
Why this format
Polls usually tell you what a thousand people in one country said last month. This is the live version: the same blunt question put to the whole planet at once, splits published the same day. Some questions are silly, some are uncomfortable. The splits carry the story: who disagreed, and by how much.
Put the question on your site
One iframe, no script, no cookies. It shows the day's question and sends voters here; after 13:00 UTC it points at the numbers. Newsletters, blogs, forums, anywhere HTML goes.
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The calendar is written months ahead and runs on a weekly rhythm: money and risk on Monday, moral calls on Tuesday, domestic law on Wednesday, the private habits nobody compares on Thursday, forced choices on Friday, daily routines on Saturday, the big picture on Sunday. Suggest a question on the site: the box appears right after you vote, and the good ones run with your name on the credit line.