A telephone poll was conducted in Australia of 1202 random people.
professionally done, attempting to get random sample with corrections
for sample
biases with respect to gender, income, education.
QUESTION:
Currently, elections for the Federal House of Representatives, or
lower house, use a
correction: I forgot to divide by 2...
This yields a very
high confidence, at least 7sigma for at least 99.9% confidence,
that self-selecting-answering French voters prefer score voting versus
approval voting.
I should have said, at least 3.9 sigma for at least 99.995% confidence.
This
Did the polling organization ask any questions about keeping AV but
dropping the requirement that the voter rank all candidates?
--Bob Richard
On 11/6/2010 10:57 AM, Warren Smith wrote:
A telephone poll was conducted in Australia of 1202 random people.
professionally done, attempting to get
To answer Bob Richard, no, they did not ask about IRV with
ballot truncation allowed. (IRV in most of Australia today is
full preferences, truncation forbidden. But truncation is permitted in
some parts of Australia, and permitting it seems to be an increasing trend.)
--
Warren D. Smith
