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PREDICTION MARKETS HAVE ARRIVED: Bloomberg columnist shames India’s government FOR NOT USING prediction markets to forecast demand.

WOW. This is big. Andy Mukherjee: [...] Finally, demand estimation is too important to be left entirely to experts. Companies such as Google Inc. are harnessing the power of prediction markets — which gather information from a large number of … Continue reading

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Demand forecasting systems: Spending a lot on software doesn’t guarantee success.

Product line demand forecasting stands as the proto-typical application for internal prediction markets. Internal prediction markets may have other uses, but the demand forecasting story is probably the most straightforward and has been most often discussed in articles on the … Continue reading

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Blogger Robin Hanson finally listens to Jakob Nielsen. + Branding

It was time. I notice that blogger Robin Hanson puts his most important sentence in bold, now. GOOD. You’re making real progress, man. (For example, see his last blog post: Benefit of Doubt = Bias.) – I got criticized last … Continue reading

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