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drob518yesterday at 6:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

The writer obviously hasn’t done any deep study of prediction markets and why they often provide greater insight than other polling techniques. Are they perfect? No. They predicted Hillary would win in 2016.


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linhnsyesterday at 6:51 PM

Had they existed then, prediction markets would have picked Hillary to win also

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dh2022yesterday at 6:57 PM

You obviously missed the point of the article. The point is that validating and advertising Polymarket on national news outlets will have ugly consequences.

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