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Re:Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election by hugh-avherald on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:49PM (#26195727)
That's why you have counterfactual prediction markets. You don't have markets on an outcome; you have two markets of an outcome conditional on some action, and on an outcome conditional on that action not being taken.
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Re:Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election by dylan604 on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:51PM (#26195756)
did you just describe sports betting?
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