Political Stock Market Simulation

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 7, 2004 @11:32AM from the hedging-your-bets dept.

Elphaba Thropp writes "Zack Coburn (of ArsDigita fame) recently released Politics on ZackCoburn.com, a political stock market simulation in which 'political figures are the symbols. The price of each symbol will fluctuate as users rate it either positively or negatively.' Each user starts with $1,000,000, and can rate a symbol's performance every twenty-four hours. The site also offers user blogs, and contains a unique statistics page, in which the top users and symbols are shown, as well as the most liberally-owned and most conservatively-owned stocks are shown (based on a political survey each user can take). Interestingly enough, George W. Bush currently has the most liberal ownership."

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no real moey behind this! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-07 11:42 · Score: 1, Insightful

This is absurd. To expect simulation participants to put any effort into it without trying to game the system is ridiculous unless there's real money in it, like London bookmaker's odds or the Iowa Futures Markets.