Using Markets to Forecast Replications

By Thomas Pfeiffer

In a number of past research projects, we have used prediction markets to elicit information on the replicability of research studies. In these markets, participants traded contracts with payoffs tied to the outcome of replications in large-scale replication projects, and thereby created forecasts – similar to bettors in sports betting markets who create forecasts by…

Reliable Research Replicates

By Louisa Tran

Replication Markets is a game that is part crowd-sourcing, part playing a market, and part legal gambling. The bets are placed on research results: can a study be replicated?