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\u201cPolitical prediction markets \u2014 in which participants buy and sell \u201ccontracts\u201d based on who they think will win an election \u2014 accurately predicted Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 victory. Now Northwestern University researchers have determined that these markets behave similar to financial markets, except when traders\u2019 partisan feelings get in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Predicting politics: Professors model prediction markets<\/a><\/em>
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\n\u201cPolitical prediction markets \u2014 in which participants buy and sell \u201ccontracts\u201d based on who they think will win an election \u2014 accurately predicted Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 victory. Now Northwestern University researchers have determined that these markets behave similar to financial markets, except when traders\u2019 partisan feelings get in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Predicting politics: Professors model prediction markets<\/a><\/em>
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\u201cPolitical prediction markets \u2014 in which participants buy and sell \u201ccontracts\u201d based on who they think will win an election \u2014 accurately predicted Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 victory. Now Northwestern University researchers have determined that these markets behave similar to financial markets, except when traders\u2019 partisan feelings get in the way.\u201d – Predicting politics: Professors model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-intelligence","7":"category-data-mining","8":"category-data-warehousing","9":"category-predictive-analytics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}