While reading the information about score ballots, I wondered what the
range-voting advocate's response is to the belief that a big preference
gap in one ballot will have more influence than a smaller preference gap
in another ballot.
For example, suppose one voter votes:
A = 1
B = 2
C = 10
and another voter votes:
A = 1
B = 5
C = 10
and, combined with the other ballots, the winner is C.
Now, suppose the first voter changes hisher ballot to:
A = 1
B = 5
C = 10
and now B wins.
This implies that the big gap between B and C in the first ballot has
more influence than the smaller gap between B and C in the second ballot.
How do range voting advocates resolve this apparent unfairness?
I'm asking out of curiosity.
("Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.")
Richard Fobes
On 6/3/2013 9:25 AM, Warren D Smith wrote:
http://rangevoting.org/RateScaleResearch.html
is a new webpage attempting to summarize about 100 years and 100 papers
worth of research on humans trying to use "rating scales" ,
focusing on what we can learn about
how "score voting" (also called "range voting") should be conducted.
An older page, which knew comparatively little about this
that kind of research, was
http://RangeVoting.org/Why99.html
and the two pages will need to be reconciled.
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