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The flaw in the system isn't that The Godfather was bumped down. The flaw is that people are rating the Godfather down to the point at which it changed its ran
by william42 18y ago
The flaw in the system isn't that The Godfather was bumped down. The flaw is that people are rating the Godfather down to the point at which it changed its ranking with respect to other movies.
And you're right, it's not a major flaw for a movie ranking system. But let's suppose something similar to the IMDB system(which would be an approval/range voting system) is used in an election, and the first place gets President, the second choice getting Veep. With an election, you don't have real-time rankings like IMDB, but you have something similar--polls. And that's even worse, since there's a few points of inaccuracy. Strategically worded polls could change the results of an election.
- unalone 18y agoBut that change is a blip in and of itself. Godfather has been bumped down before. Happened with Lord of the Rings. It climbs back up after the initial wave.
- brokenladder 18y agoScore Voting (aka Range Votiing) and Approval Voting are actually the best voting methods, especially when you take strategic voting into account. http://rangevoting.org/StratHonMix.html http://rangevoting.org/StratHonMix.html In this case, even if the election result changed, you'd still get a candidate who was rated relatively well by the average voter, so the results would not be that much worse. Now consider that other voting methods react much worse to strategic voters, _and_ that score voting is as good with a great number of strategic voters as other systems are with 100% honest voters, and this whole argument falls flat.