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Tag Archives: academia
Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
Did Eric Zitzewitz read Dodd-Frank? Jason Ruspini: Unfortunately, election contracts and ALL event contracts appear to be prohibited by CFTC regulation 40.11, released in July 2011 as part of Dodd-Frank: “(a) Prohibition. A registered entity shall not list for trading … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged academia, bets, Betting, betting markets, CFTC, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, Economics, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, events, forecasting, Jason Ruspini, laws, Politics, predicting, prediction markets, real-money prediction markets, Regulations, Research
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The Climate Gate scandal highlights the modus operandi of the academic mafia.
Required reading this Friday: – How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus – About expelling the non-believers from the academic journals publishing on climate science – The Dog Ate Global Warming – About the destruction of raw temperature data of Planet … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Research, Science
Tagged academia, academic mafia, climate change, Climate Gate, climate science, ClimateGate, Earth, Earth science, global warming, Planet Earth, professors, Research, researchers, Science
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Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.
Lance Fortnow: While this made sense for a young discipline, our field has matured and the conference model has fractured the discipline and skewered it toward short-term, deadline-driven research. Computer science should refocus the conference system on its primary purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science
Tagged academia, academics, computer science, conferences, journals, Lance Fortnow, professors, researchers, Science
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Scholarly journals are not so open.
Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix
Posted in Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged academia, academic articles, academic papers, academic researchers, academics, Knowledge, open access, open knowledge, professors, Research, research articles, research papers, research scientists, researchers, scholarly journals, Science
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Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.
Robin Hanson‘s auto-biography (i.e., how Our Master Of All Universes views HimSelf): – Robin Hanson: Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too. But I love the above quote. I have a passion, a … Continue reading
Posted in Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, History, People
Tagged academia, academics, auto-biographies, betting markets, biographies, bios, Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence that predicts, economic science, Economics, economists, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, George Mason Univeristy, idea future markets, idea futures, idea futures markets, Our Master Of All Universes, Policy Analysis Market, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, professors, research scientists, researchers, Robin Hanson, scholars, tenure, universities
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Andrew Gelman makes more sense than Robin Hanson.
Andrew Gelman: I would go with the commonsensical view that academia is primarily an institution for teaching and research. I think of the credentialing as a byproduct. Sounds logical.
Posted in Psychology
Tagged academia, Andrew Gelman, credentialing, Research, Robin Hanson, teaching
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Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?
Read this New York Times article about academic–industry ties. How much consulting and speaking fees (plus, free meals, tickets, trips or the like) do our economics professors receive from the prediction market industry? Does it taint what they write and … Continue reading
Papers on prediction markets listed on Yiling Chen’s Harvard webpage:
- Publications An Empirical Study of Dynamic Pari-mutuel Markets: Evidence from the Tech Buzz Game [PDF, 380k] Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, and Tejaswi Kasturi The 10th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), in conjunction with the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic articles, academic papers, computer science, Economics, Harvard University, Information Technology, prediction market academics, prediction market research, prediction market researchers, prediction market scholars, prediction markets, publications, research articles, research papers, Yiling Chen
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