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This one is bizarre.
A political "futures" market predicts election results better than polls. * In 1988 the University of Iowa launched an experiment to test whether a market using securities for presidential candidates could predict the outcome of the election. * In presidential elections from 1988 to 2004, the Iowa Electronic Markets have predicted final results better than the polls three times out of four. * Despite the track record of the Iowa market, a fundamental understanding of how prediction markets work remains elusive, and economists are still trying to develop a body of theory to provide definitive answers. .... In 1992 the Iowa Political Stock Market was redubbed the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM), and trading was opened to anyone from Dubuque to Beijing who could come up with the requisite minimum of $5. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had granted the University of Iowa an exemption from regulation because the IEM is mainly run for research purposes (only minor sums are transacted). The election exchange has continued to beat the polls consistently for presidential elections and at times has prevailed in congressional and international races. A paper being prepared for publication by several Iowa professors compares the performance of the IEM as a predictor of presidential elections from 1988 to 2004 with 964 polls over that same period and shows that the market was closer to the outcome of an election 74 percent of the time. The market, moreover, does better than the polls at predicting the outcome not just around Election Day but as long as 100 days before. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...ter-than-polls |
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:12:31 -0600, cavelamb himself
wrote: This one is bizarre. A political "futures" market predicts election results better than polls. ================== Consider that political "polls" consider only or mainly politics, while a 'futures market" considers "all" the factors. What this shows is that many items are more important than "politics" to election outcomes. IMNSHO it is vital to keep asking the questions, "what's in it for me," "what's in it for you," and "what's in it for the country." If there is never anything in it for me and never anything in it for the country, but always something in it for you, why should you get my vote? Unka' George [George McDuffee] ------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625). |
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