I should have given more details about the poll and its results: At the polling website, we use three-level CR. Voters can vote "Like", "Dislike", "Indifferent", or "Don't know".
"Like" awards 2 points. "Dislike" and "Don't know" don't award any points. "Indifferent" awards 1 point. There were seven voters. Here are the methods in the poll,and their point totals: Approval 13 -1,0,1 9 -1,1 8 MDDA 5 Of the seven voters, all but one gave Approval a "Like". None gave Approval a "Dislike" As I said, Approval scored 50% above the mean, and 44% above the runner-up. I understand that the percentage above the mean isn't the uniform way to express a deviation from the mean. I'm the first to admit that I don't know statistics, but if the standard deviation is the square root of the sum of the squares of the deviations, divided by the number of deviations, then Approval scored almost 3 standard deviations above the mean. Mike Ossipoff ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
