  Scoring functions are commonly used to evaluate a point forecast of a
particular statistical functional. This scoring function should be consistent,
meaning the correct value of the functional is the Bayes act, in which case we
say the scoring function elicits the functional. Recent results show that the
mode functional is not elicitable. In this work, we ask whether it is at least
possible to indirectly elicit the mode, wherein one elicits a low-dimensional
functional from which the mode can be computed. We show that this cannot be
done: neither the mode nor a modal interval are indirectly elicitable with
respect to the class of identifiable functionals.
