I've seen people get excited about early voting stats before, only to be disappointed by final results. Polling is a better indicator.
oh, I was thinking more that maybe we expect to be naturally overrating the odds of our favored candidate
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but that particular bias isn't necessarily clear to me
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The bottom line is that people treat this kind of betting more like a demonstration of faith than a financial decision
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So it's useless as a predictor cuz no one bets rationally... but if ppl did bet rationally it would still be useless as a predictor
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