For being mentioned among the best most prominent European entrepreneurs.
AskMarkets will be a founding partner of the Open Institute Of Prediction Markets —-I hope very much so.
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Congrats to George Tziralis
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My open challenge to AskMarkets co-founder George Tziralis
Dear George,
Congrats for the launch of AskMarkets. Best wishes to your prediction exchange and consulting firm.
Here’-s the perfect opportunity to ask you the “-question that kills”-:
What was the social utility of the political election prediction markets during the 2008 campaign?
In other words, why should the media have informed people about the InTrade probabilities at a time Nate Silver did a near-perfect job forecasting the 2008 US elections?
What’-s the added value of the political election prediction markets over the poll aggregators?
Can you cite one prediction market (other than the “-who’-s gonna become president?”- prediction market) that has a high social utility?
Each time I ask this question to one of the prediction market luminaries (or so they think they are), I get back the same glance I would get from a dead trout —-so I would appreciate if you could attempt to answer my question by publishing a blog post on Midas Oracle.
Best regards,
Chris Masse, bombastic blogger
http://www.midasoracle.org/
Mercury, Xpree, HubDub, Media Predict, The Sim Exchange, Ask Markets, iPredict New Zealand, Smarkets, Red Monitor, etc.: Will they be still with us next year?
Prediction Markets = marketplaces for information trading… and for separating the wheat from the chaff.
Our good friend George Tziralis:
Markets bring people together, they sum up their information and transmit it through prices.
[A prediction market is] a tool which can aggregate the opinions and knowledge of the many and transform these into a meaningful result.
Markets arise as the ideal tool to crowdsource cognitive tasks and arrive at consensus results which are typically proven to be more accurate or correct than the opinions of the few experts, as suggested by both theory, experiments and practice.
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Beautifully said.
AskMarkets
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Dont ask the experts. Ask the prediction markets. They know better.
George Tziralis should have refined a bit the statement he made in the first video below —-statement which I have slightly modified in the title above. We need inputs from the primary, advanced indicators, the experts, and the prediction markets. We need all of that. The prediction markets will never eliminate either the polls or the experts. The prediction markets come as a supplement in the mix.
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