James Surowiecki’-s 4 comments at Overcoming Bias (in October 2007), responding to accusations that he got it all wrong about Francis Galton: —- James Surowiecki’-s 1st comment: “-Galton did not even bother to calculate a mean, as he saw his … Continue reading
The Racing Post and TimeForm compete in the same space- they make money from horse racing data. The Racing Post through its newspaper- TimeForm through its database publications. On the Web, they compete head to head in many respects —-and … Continue reading
We have seen two PageRank updates this month (October 2007), and the effect of the second wave is just taking effect this morning. BetFair from 7 to 6 InTrade from 6 to 5 TradeSports from 6 to 5 IEM from … Continue reading
Jed Christiansen: It’s obvious that John wants InTrade to be much more successful than it has been, but he still clearly believes that InTrade can still be very successful. He mentioned that one key in their business is market makers- … Continue reading
I recently published some thoughts resulting from the NYC Prediction Market Conference. There were three items: 1. Contract Content which discusses “-whether having related content and links appear alongside a contract make any difference as to how well informed the … Continue reading
Jusitn Wolfers: I’-ve been amazed by how much work blogging can be. More than anything else, this past week has simply increased my admiration for the work that Alex [Tabarrok] and Tyler [Cowen] put into this site and our community. … Continue reading
—- Ellen Goodman: […] The closed-minded hedgehogs are those who know ”-one big thing”- and relate everything to that single, central vision. The open-minded foxes ”-know many little things”- and accept ambiguity and contradictions. […] It’-s no surprise that foxes … Continue reading
– TradeSports – Partners Program – InTrade – Partners Program —- Both “-Affiliates”- links lead to the same TradeSports page. Why do they insist on this charade? If there is some good reason to pretend that they are two separate … Continue reading
Is your boss a visionary? Or is he/she among the laggards? Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: If Midas Oracle were to meet, would we use Huddle, and why? WORLD’S SUCH A SMALL PLACE: Smarkets meet HubDub. 50% of … Continue reading
by aussiegall Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: 50% of our prediction market luminaries have a MacBook. STRAIGHT FROM OUR TRUISM DEPARTMENT: Money buys happiness. Ron Paul (R) and Barney Frank (D) ally together to attack “the practical hurdles … Continue reading
