Robin Hanson:

[&#8230-] We rarely seek out advice, and when we do it is usually on much smaller decisions. [&#8230-] One reason we avoid getting advice is that it lowers our status relative to those who give advice. Of course this is also makes asking for advice a good way to flatter and supplicate. Not sure if this explains the puzzle though. But all this doesn&#8217-t seem to bode well for fielding decision markets on the biggest organizational decisions.

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It would not make sense for political experts to spend their work days reading the political prediction markets, only. They are paid to produce poll reports and analysis, which then inform the event derivative traders. The polls and the political memos are the primary sources of information, which determine the direction of the political futures markets.

In the same vein, it would not make sense for us to be seeking advice all the time. We will learn more in our lives by making mistakes and correcting them. Maybe that&#8217-s the reason we don&#8217-t like seeking advice: we know we get better by discovering ideas, making good and bad decisions, and learning from all that on our own.

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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• “Annette 15”, the once-hot female poker star sponsored by BetFair Poker, does blog only twice a month on the official BetFair blog… when she blogs at all… if you call that blogging.
• Inkling Markets bring in awards, honors, advisors, and new clients —leaving competition in the dust.
• No need of enterprise prediction markets to boost intra-corporation communication
• Inkling Markets is included in the 2008 list of “Cool Vendors” by Gartner.
• BetFair-TradeFair has won its second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in its eight-year history.
• Inkling Markets is one of the “Hot Companies To Watch In 2008”, according to Forrester.
• Plenty of great news coming from Inkling Markets in the coming weeks