Before and during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, participants made probabilistic forecasts for the outcomes of the tournament. We examine the relationship between depression levels and performance in this real-world forecasting task. Across two different waves of predictions, for both continuous and categorical classifications of depression, and with multiple measures of prediction accuracy, we fin...

Dengue is a persistent threat to Brazilians. The twentieth FIFA World Cup will take place in Brazil in June and July this year. This paper warning that Dengue fever could be not a significant problem in competition locations. Temperature is a very strong predictor of suitability for Dengue and it seems evident that relative humidity measurements are less satisfactory in biological (ecological, ...

The 2022 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup will take place in Qatar and be a one-of-a-kind mega-crowd gathering. This is the first time history that people from all over world would gather such concentrated place. There higher chance of spreading zoonotic illnesses one community to another among those who travel internationally, therefore tourists should aware d...