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Let’s be honest, it’s hard enough getting Americans to the ballot on Election Day, we don’t need to introduce more complexity. Ranking requires far less brain
by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Let’s be honest, it’s hard enough getting Americans to the ballot on Election Day, we don’t need to introduce more complexity.
Ranking requires far less brain power than a rating system would.
Maybe the energy expenditure between the two is small for the HN group but for the general public, the aversion to doing the mental work would be enough to dramatically reduce turnout.
This goes for all countries, not just America.
Not to mention how easy it is to spread lies for something as simplistic as FPTP. The more complicated a system is, the easier it’ll be to spread lies about it.
- ajmurmann 5y agoI'm not sure why you claim that ranking requires less brain power. Ranking becomes especially burdensome as you have more candidates/options. On top of that ranked voting seems much simpler on the surface than it actually is. The actual calculation is quite opaque in comparison.
- goatse-4-u 5y ago.
- ClayShentrup 5y ago> Ranking requires far less brain power than a rating system would. Rating is simpler than ranking in every way we can measure, from rates of ballot spoilage, to average time taken to complete a ballot. https://medium.com/election-science/star-voting-is-simpler-than-irv-84b8990986f2 https://medium.com/election-science/star-voting-is-simpler-t... https://www.rangevoting.org/Complexity https://www.rangevoting.org/Complexity Most obviously, ranking is effectively a bubble sort, О(n^2), whereas rating is just two passes: 1. Get the max and min. 2. Normalize, thus O(n). And Approval Voting, technically rating on a 0-1 binary scale, is arguably even simpler than the status quo.
- creata 5y agoI don't have a score in my head for each politician: I just know which are better, and which are worse. Consequently, > Most obviously, ranking is effectively a bubble sort, О(n^2), whereas rating is just two passes: 1. Get the max and min. 2. Normalize, thus O(n). is meaningless to me: rating is impossible, because it's asking me for numbers that I just don't have.