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Crowds Believe in You: Online Prediction Markets Overestimate How Often People Achieve Their Own Goals

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People increasingly share personal goals online and invite others to forecast them.
Research on the planning fallacy finds that observers predict a person's behavior less optimistically than the perso.

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Cite this synthesis DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.40324 ↗

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@misc{ acaciacompliance-research-crowds-believe-in-you-online-prediction-markets-overestimate,
  title = { Crowds Believe in You: Online Prediction Markets Overestimate How Often People Achieve Their Own Goals },
  author = { Leszek },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { 10.48550/arXiv.2610.40324 },
  url = { http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40324v1 },
  note = {Summarized and classified by AcaciaFund}
}

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People increasingly share personal goals online and invite others to forecast them. Research on the planning fallacy finds that observers predict a person's behavior less optimistically than the perso

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