Kind of vague, but I suppose it’s not too hard to do a search and note that the NYT only mentioned Intrade a few times in the 2000s and more in the 2010s.
I have no idea how one would measure this one. I’m sure that at any high school you could find a student willing to wager with you on any damn topic you please.
Not including a prediction for middleclasses. Already true if you count sports, as many prediction markets such as Betfair do.
Agree with orthonormal that this is seriously over-optimistic. The only site I even use today that I did in 2000 would be Slashdot, and I haven’t commented there in a dog’s age.
Well, then you’re using a variant definition of prediction market, and before I can feel confident judging any prediction of yours, I need to know what your idiosyncratic interpretation of the phrase is.
I agree that I wasn’t making the most coherent claim, and since it’s been a long time I can’t guarantee fidelity of what I originally intended.
But my best guess would be, trying to phrase this as concretely as possible, was that I meant to predict that either
a) sports betting agencies would expand into non-sports venues and see significant business there
or b) newer betting agencies not created to serve sports would achieve similar success
I would be “disappointed” if “non-sports” meant something like player movement between teams and “excited” if it meant something like unemployment rates and vote shares in elections.
http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1710
Kind of vague, but I suppose it’s not too hard to do a search and note that the NYT only mentioned Intrade a few times in the 2000s and more in the 2010s.
http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1709
I have no idea how one would measure this one. I’m sure that at any high school you could find a student willing to wager with you on any damn topic you please.
Not including a prediction for middleclasses. Already true if you count sports, as many prediction markets such as Betfair do.
http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1711
http://predictionbook.com/predictions/1712
Agree with orthonormal that this is seriously over-optimistic. The only site I even use today that I did in 2000 would be Slashdot, and I haven’t commented there in a dog’s age.
I probably meant for claim 3 to exclude sports.
Well, then you’re using a variant definition of prediction market, and before I can feel confident judging any prediction of yours, I need to know what your idiosyncratic interpretation of the phrase is.
I agree that I wasn’t making the most coherent claim, and since it’s been a long time I can’t guarantee fidelity of what I originally intended.
But my best guess would be, trying to phrase this as concretely as possible, was that I meant to predict that either
a) sports betting agencies would expand into non-sports venues and see significant business there
or b) newer betting agencies not created to serve sports would achieve similar success
I would be “disappointed” if “non-sports” meant something like player movement between teams and “excited” if it meant something like unemployment rates and vote shares in elections.