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pinkmuffinereyesterday at 5:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

> 73% of all polymarkets do resolve to No though.

I bet the average price for a no bet across these markets is 73 cents.


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bargainbinyesterday at 7:15 PM

71 cents*, the bookie gets a cut either way it goes.

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mrandishyesterday at 8:04 PM

> I bet the average price for a no bet across these markets is 73 cents.

Behavioral economics has already answered the question of whether humans are, on average, perfectly rational economic actors. They are not.

To the contrary, there is substantial evidence indicating a meaningful number of humans will mis-estimate the likelihood of uncommon future events.

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traderj0eyesterday at 6:01 PM

It's not. But also a lot of those stats thrown around are misleading.

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kristopolousyesterday at 6:18 PM

Why would outcomes match perceptions?

The whole premise of gambling is that they don't

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