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> Do they, though? Does "largest" mean "tallest" or "heaviest"? Is a tiger bigger than a lion? Do you mean the male of the species or the female? In the childr
by antifa 4y ago
> Do they, though? Does "largest" mean "tallest" or "heaviest"? Is a tiger bigger than a lion? Do you mean the male of the species or the female?
In the children's quiz, it's about objective facts and they're not trying to do "gotchas". The voting will be about opinions.
> Do you really think that the average US voter could memorize an ordering for a list of 12 names?
I expect the voter to show with 1-3 top names, rank them first, then rank everyone else by their preferred party, then the least bad person of the opposition party. I also expect things like pirate/socialist/green/libertarian parties to win elections they otherwise would have been strategic throwaway spoilers in.
> maybe RCV is such an improvement that this level of disenfranchisement is worth it
Another user mentioned something like giving each candidate a 1-5 star rating, I thought that idea was worth exploring.
- pessimizer 4y agoIn the children's quiz, children can both think that elephants are heavier and that giraffes are taller, and not know what you mean by "bigger." If you're saying that a ranked choice quiz given to children can force them to identify with opinions that they don't have e.g. force them to say that giraffes are "bigger," I'd agree, but the only gotcha is "gotcha to record an opinion that you don't actually have." In ranked choice voting, can I say that one candidate is worthwhile, and all the others would be catastrophic? Can I say that the top five are passable, but the other two are Nazis?