The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
When you can’t manipulate the outcome, you’re almost guaranteed to lose.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
When you can’t manipulate the outcome, you’re almost guaranteed to lose.
Imagine being such a degenerate that you bet on the Pope.
“Bettors lose”… Bookies win.
Is this news?
There are no bookies on polymarket.
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The Orange turd final age bet I’d still on. Same for the exact time putin’s skull encompasses twice it’s current volume.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The article doesn’t really state what your short summary states.
Choosing a new pope isn’t an open process, so there’s very little information to go off of. Something like an election has a lot of public information, so those betting odds are more likely to represent the actual odds in the election.
I really don’t think there’s much to learn here, other than that choosing a new pope is chaotic and the process isn’t very open.
qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
In situations like this it may make sense to just bet on all the underdogs. The market is highly overconfident in its information, you think the markets information is crap, so you just bet against the market by taking the underdogs.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I just think it’s foolhardy to bet at all. There’s not enough information to make an informed decision, and even if you think you’ll have better average odds by betting on the underdogs, this is a very rare event so you don’t have the time to make it back up in averages.