High Class or Low Class? - Which person/character/concept will Manifold think are "High Class" in 2024? (add answers)
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Jan 1
97%
Barack Obama
96%
Anthony Hopkins
96%
Chess
95%
Apple Products
95%
Pea Protein
94%
Tennis
93%
Classical Music
93%
Psychedelics
93%
Golf
91%
Tea
90%
Prediction markets
87%
Walking to work
87%
BDSM
86%
Coffee
85%
Wearing a smartwatch
85%
Sir David Attenborough
84%
Hipsters
83%
Smoking a cigar
82%
Kamala Harris
80%
Mustaches

Each answer contains a question: Do you think the person/character/concept is more High Class (YES) or more Low Class (NO)? Bet YES, or NO, according to your opinion. 1 person = 1 vote (per answer), so having more shares does not make your vote count for more.

Heavily inspired from @Joshua's excellent market,

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You can submit any person/character/concept (shortened to p/c/c for the rest of the description), as well as a link / short phrase to give traders some context.

I may N/A options for quality control, or edit them to provide a more neutral summary.


As a trader, you should buy any amount of YES in p/c/c you think are High Class, buy any amount of NO in p/c/c you think are Low Class. I will leave the definition of those terms up to you. The amount of shares doesn't matter for the resolution, one share of yes is one vote and one hundred shares of yes is also one vote.

If I think you are voting purely as a troll, such as buying no in every option, I may block you or disregard your votes. Please vote in good faith! But hey, I can't read your mind. Ultimately this market is on the honor system.

Note that market prices will be a bit strange here, because this is simultaneously a market and a poll. If you sell your shares, you are also removing your vote.

The market will close on Dec 31 2024. I will then check the positions tab on options that have been submitted.

If there is a clear majority of YES holders, the option resolves YES.

If there is a clear majority of NO holders, the option resolves NO.

It does not matter what % the market is at, and bots holding a position are also counted.

Some guidelines:

  • I encourage you not to bet options to extremes (1% or 99%) before a quite clear majority has been established. Otherwise, it prevents others from betting toward that extreme, and can bias the results.

I may update these exact criteria to better match the spirit of the question if anyone has any good suggestions, so please leave a comment if you do.

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Additionally I'd like to add that I'm kind of critical of these "what do people think" markets because they're rewarded for voting for whatever has the majority, I'd like to believe people vote for what they believe but I feel like it's only partially the case and once one side has like 70% of investment to one side an a lead of say 5-2 it's not going to flip easily unless people try to move it to the other side.

I will probably avoid them from now on

@noney the first rule of Manifold is: you DO talk about Manifold. You make markets about Manifold. You poll Manifold. You can't get enough of knowing what Manifold thinks. Manifold. Manifold. Manifoldmanifoldmanifold. Manimanimani, foldfoldfold.

(It's a very long first rule.)

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I personally find it ridiculous that such a large percentage believes it to be high class, it's notoriously a middle class way of showing off "being wealthy"

LOL good one