tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-905059660302177205.post6745071556687085896..comments2024-03-26T05:19:19.442-04:00Comments on College Football by the Numbers: The People's Poll: Everyone Else's Top 25Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862656571382266427noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-905059660302177205.post-25205307929692376842008-08-08T01:11:00.000-04:002008-08-08T01:11:00.000-04:00Your example of the Department of Defense (DOD) us...Your example of the Department of Defense (DOD) using prediction markets for predicting terrorist events is a good example of prediction markets gone wrong because the outcome of the market would be used to try to alter the outcome predicted by the market. Consequently, no intelligence could be generated from such a market because the price also reflects the DOD's capacity to alter the outcome Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862656571382266427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-905059660302177205.post-76571613764160571912008-08-07T22:40:00.000-04:002008-08-07T22:40:00.000-04:00Let me get this straight. A prediction market lis...Let me get this straight. A prediction market list is one where people are placing a monetary amount beside their prediction of what will happen in the future, right? And I think that at one time, the Pentegon was suggesting using this as a way of predicting future terrorist events... <BR/><BR/>All irony aside, can a prediction market on a season that is so heavily predicated upon predictions Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-905059660302177205.post-15150572120978092812008-08-06T19:10:00.000-04:002008-08-06T19:10:00.000-04:00Wish I had tried it in past seasons. The idea jus...Wish I had tried it in past seasons. The idea just occurred to me this morning and I ran with it. I'm excited to see how it turns out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862656571382266427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-905059660302177205.post-59864536220382563112008-08-06T13:47:00.000-04:002008-08-06T13:47:00.000-04:00Great idea! Have you done this over any of the pa...Great idea! Have you done this over any of the past football seasons, and if so has it panned out better than the "official" polls?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com