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Re:Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence fr... by eloisant on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:02PM (#48228850)
When the abstract is limited, you don't add useless qualifiers like "the largest prediction market"
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Re:Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence fr... by michaelt on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:21PM (#48229030)
Some people feel strongly about defining jargon when using it - an article on here [1] the other day about Capture The Flag (CTF) hacking puzzle competitions was full of comments comparing the article didn’t say what CTFs were.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559

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Re:Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence fr... by janalsncm on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:14PM (#48229952)
It’s not a useless qualifier. Many readers might not know that Polymarket is the biggest now, and if at some future date it’s not the biggest anymore the statement makes it clear why they studied at this time.
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Re:Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence fr... by ashdksnndck on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:51PM (#48229793)
This is a familiar style in abstracts. Weird as it sounds, it’s normal to have some language implying the reader is a hermit living in a cave. If it sounds like something an AI would say, maybe it’s because models have been trained on academic papers?
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