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STAR voting is good, but it makes the (IMO) mistake of taking the average rating as each candidate's score. I think it's absolutely crucial in a voting system t
by bscphil 8y ago
STAR voting is good, but it makes the (IMO) mistake of taking the average rating as each candidate's score. I think it's absolutely crucial in a voting system to make it resilient to manipulation, and that means that taking the median rating (as in Majority Judgement) is the way to go.
- quadrangle 8y agoSTAR does NOT make that mistake. I mean, it literally doesn't. It uses the SUM of scores, NOT the mean or the median. But sum is effectively the same result as taking the median.
- dragonwriter 8y agoSum is effectively equivalent to mean, not median.
- quadrangle 8y agoWell, the main concern most people have with mean is if it ignores abstentions. Sum does not ignore abstentions, they are the same as a marked 0. But you're right that sum is like mean if mean counts all the abstentions as 0's. I'm open to the idea that actually using median is superior. Could you expound on that?