Prediction Markets + Market Predictions = Collective Forecasting That Pays Off
Well, the average was a 5.8/10, meaning that the average detected sentiment was pretty much neutral with some hints on positivity.
I acknowledge this result, brought to us by research scientist and university professor Panos Ipeirotis… who, 5 minutes ago, was alerting us on the hard fact that Mechanical Turk is not so much of a reliable tool…
Previously: Enterprise prediction markets… the next big thing —not.
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Chris, I hope that you just want to put some humor in your coverage, when you cite my post about the “unreliability” of Mechanical Turk.
My post about the unreliability is about completion time (which is difficult to predict), *not* about the accuracy of the answers that we get back.
Panos, you are right… I wanted to plant a certain sense of unreliability in the mind of my readers… I plead guilty as charged.
Why do you wish to confuse and misinform your readers?
Daniel, I wanted them to click on the link and see the downside of Mechanical Turk… (That’s not deceiving them, that’s trying to make them to read more about it.)
Kind of strange to claim that you are doing journalism here and, at the same time, try intentionally trying to give false impressions.
Kind of strange to claim that you are doing journalism here and, at the same time, try intentionally to generate false impressions.
Technically, if you look at the sentence, I don’t think I lied.