This is the main portal of the WikiResearch Project. Designed to provide an open forum for the development of open, challenging, interdisciplinary discussion, this project combines wiki thinking with prediction market theory. The concept of this project is that, like prediction markets, a market of ideas considering future events will produce efficient results. Better yet, by allowing substantive ideas to compete, the project will produce substantive predictions and, more important, substantive evidence to support the prediction.
To accomplish this goal, complex issues require sophisticated understanding from a variety of areas and perspectives. Beyond the capacity of any individual, the WikiResearch Project offers a forum in which individuals can easily access a body of information to consider particular relationships and, through mass participation, be a part of developing a meaningful counterfactual reality.
Accomplishing this goal will require the best academic research, the best statistical data, relevant quotes, news stories, and even anecdotes. Brought to bear on specific, though ambitious, questions, we attempt to grow a sophisticated body of knowledge to support a meaningful conclusion.
Introduction offers a logistical summary of the project. You can find information about contributing and becoming a member of the project.
Research Summaries provides summaries of the ongoing research projects.
Under "Research Projects" in the menu bar you will find links to ongoing research projects.
Thank you,
Scott Albrecht
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
