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2020′s PREDICTION MARKET JOURNALISM = Polls + Experts + Prediction Markets

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Justin Wolfers interview: [...] Wolfers predicted that cable news shows would turn to prediction-market experts for analysis in 2008. â€œMy forecast is that theyâ€™ll either have someone in the studio whose job it is to track the markets, or … Continue reading →

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Prediction Market Journalism

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Credit: Scientific American magazine – Abstract Via Mat Fogarty of Xpree (an innovative firm providing software for enterprise prediction markets) Ask me by e-mail to get a copy of the PDF file. – The problem with the bold statement in … Continue reading →

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Care to revise your statement, sir?

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Justin Wolfers: â€œIn a few years, we may regard the second half of the 20th century as the aberration in which the press used polls rather than markets to track political races,â€ Justin Wolfers, a business professor at the University … Continue reading →

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Prediction markets are forecasting tools of convenience that feed on advanced indicators.

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Why were the political prediction markets so wrong about Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire? …asks Slate’s Daniel Gross —via Mister Usability (Alex Kirtland), who needs to go and get his own gravatar. So, I’ve been watching the … Continue reading →

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Prediction Market History + Prediction Market Journalism

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

The New York Times: [...] Long before political prediction markets sprouted on the Internet, election bets â€” whether the stakes were money or embarrassing public spectacles â€” were a ubiquitous part of the American political scene. The practice, which began … Continue reading →

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How do prediction markets benefit our society?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

KansasCity.com (page two): [...] To advocates such as business professor Justin Wolfers, people can better plan their lives, their purchases and their businesses by knowing how much investors are willing to wager that, for example, mortgage rates drop. â€œItâ€™s an … Continue reading →

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What to think of all those Wisdom-Of-Crowds sites popping up like forest mushrooms after an October rain?

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

Via Art Hutchinson (just out of summer hibernation), this mid-October Wash Post article quoting two usual suspects: Justin Wolfers, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said collective wisdom — reflected for instance in the stock prices … Continue reading →

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