sorry. sent from phone and forgot to Cc list.....
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I consider it very bad to have to use a computer at all. Any system that
requires a computer to be easy to use gets a zero vote from me.
In this system I hope the items I left off the ballot were given a "zero"
value? The range thing where a no vote was not the same as a zero vote gets a
zero vote from me. Also, in this system how do I give two or more candidates
equal ranking?
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> matt welland wrote:
> > <cue grumpy old man voice>
> > So I gave the opavote thing (nicely done site BTW) a try and had the
> > same experience I do with every ranked vote system. Choice overload and
> > decision freeze up. I literally hate ranking and I hope to <insert
> > deity of choice> these things don't take over.
> >
> > Given how many people love the ranked systems I wonder if there is a
> > cultural or age thing at play here, that or I'm just more time starved
> > or dumber than ya'll but ... (I'll say it again) I HATE ranking.
>
> Do you think you'd find it more palatable if it consisted of the machine
> asking you "do you prefer this candidate to that candidate" a bunch of
> times? It could do so in about n lg n questions, which would be around
> 87.
>
> Real world elections would probably only involve 5-10 "real chance"
> candidates, as well, not 20.
>
> > BTW, my response to complex decision making are not entirely out of the
> > "normal" range:
> >
> > http://www.wealthinformatics.com/2011/06/29/too-many-choices-save-cost-money/
>
> True. The economic system tends to give lots and lots of different
> choices, too, because to differentiate is a way that a company may
> extract profit beyond what it would in perfect competition. (The logic
> behind this is that if the product was so different that there were
> essentially no other providers of it, then the producer could price as
> if it were a monopoly, which would give it privilege to set the price as
> far high as it wanted.)
>
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