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Polymarket's Predictive Power
This chapter explores Polymarket's effectiveness as a prediction market during an election cycle, showcasing its ability to forecast outcomes more accurately than traditional polls. The discussion reveals both admiration for the market's predictive capabilities and concerns about its limited scale and susceptibility to manipulation. It emphasizes the need for improvements in prediction markets to enhance their role in political decision-making, while also critiquing the biases present in both betting and polling methodologies.