E-boy
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 Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject: Interesting article on predictive markets and a funny |
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=markets-predict-outcome-better-than-polls
Really interesting stuff. I'm a little concerned that they're being a little over enthusiastic about applications here, but it certainly seems useful in the ones it's been used in so far. I'd be more comfortable with it if they understood why they were getting these results better.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22958354/
This made me laugh. More because the 'phrasing' used in the collections notice caught me off guard than anything else.
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