unsophisticated

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They found that the gains on prediction markets go almost entirely to sophisticated traders, while long-shot bets and unsophisticated traders take losses.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

This isn’t really about sophisticated firms being punished by unsophisticated ones, although there’s some of that.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Everything fell: oil prices, the dollar, even gold, because investors were shocked by how unsophisticated and draconian the policy was.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Bogan, a term which first emerged in Australia in the 1980s, initially meant an "unsophisticated and uncultured person" with negative connotations, but not for Louis.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

By the standards of today, crater research in the early 1900s was a trifle unsophisticated, to say the least.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson