Your Prediction Please: How Bad Will the 2008 Recession Be?

Justin Wolfers called a recession here not long ago.

Ben Bernanke seems about ready to call it himself. Now a reader named Alexis Tatarsky has put the question to all of you on our Freakonomics Prediction Center:

On a scale of 1 to 10, with the recession of 2001 being a 4 and the Great Depression an 8, what will be the change in G.D.P. for 2008?

So get yourself over to the Predictify Center and cast your vote.