Le dimanche 18 avril 2021 à 22:18:22+0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter a écrit : > The Schwartz set resolution algorithm is absolutely best of breed. But > there's an old saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. > > If we look at the actual ballots, it's really interesting. Options 7 > and 8 were semantically pretty much equivalent. It's hard to see any > reason for someone to rank them very differently. So if the voters are > rational, we'd think that nearly all ballots would have options 7 and > 8 ranking either the same or adjacent. And that if one is ranked the > same as other options, then they should both be. Yet many of the > ballots rank one but not the other, or rank them very differently. > Some voters ranked either option 7 or 8 as "1" and allowed everything > else to default. It's very difficult to imagine someone who actually > preferred option 7 being equally satisfied with any of options 1-6 and > 8. > > We tend to assume that the DD electorate is highly sophisticated and > rational and understand how to correctly express their preferences, > and how ranking works. But a quick perusal of the actual ballots has > disabused me of that notion. > > The usual reaction to this sort of thing is to alter the voter > instructions. But people have intuitions for how voting works, and > blurbs might not be very effective at changing their behaviour. Hi, I don't understand how you semantically see 7 and 8 as comparable. Regards, -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528 F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2 It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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