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Seems pretty similar, but simpler. Just thinking about it Id prefer something like a "Strongly Disapprove, Somewhat Disapprove, Approve, Somewhat Approve, Stro
by joshjje 10y ago
Seems pretty similar, but simpler. Just thinking about it Id prefer something like a "Strongly Disapprove, Somewhat Disapprove, Approve, Somewhat Approve, Strongly Approve" on all candidates. Most people should be familiar with that and then you could "downvote" ones you strongly dislike, and its weighted.
- fusiongyro 10y agoThe problem with that is you effectively give partisans two votes: a strong approval for their guy and a strong disapproval of your guy. It's worth noting that there is a mathematical discipline of studying voting systems. Approval has been studied quite extensively and seems to have fewer flaws than most other methods—though it has been proven that no method can be perfect.
- ClayShentrup 10y agoYou're presumably talking about Arrow's Theorem, which only applies to ordinal (ranked) voting methods. http://scorevoting.net/ArrowThm http://scorevoting.net/ArrowThm