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Flippity floppity (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] ji59@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Your comment is well written, but completely unrelated. I said the prediction markets are more accurate then polls (I even found a paper for you), and you reply with an article about "How sometimes it's hard to determine a result of a bet", which isn't applyable here, since election results are well defined. You then continue to rant about predictive markets, but nothing about their accuracy. And BTW, I agree with you.

If I'm wrong, could you please clarify, how their accuracy is connected to their morality?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I said the prediction markets are more accurate then polls (I even found a paper for you)

When you have people with a finger on the scale making the bets, of course they will be