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This is quite reductive and ridiculous, people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distan
by mkoubaa 4y ago
This is quite reductive and ridiculous, people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distance.
- charlesetc 4y agoDon't they? Isn't that axis just "how much they like the candidate"?
- mkoubaa 4y agoThe point being made about extremism hinges on the axis being "ideological left/right" rather than "how much I like the candidate"
- godelski 4y agoNo, it is how much they like a candidate on a certain topic and then they consider all topics, which are weighted. But also the distance measurement of voting systems aren't in reality a single axis. So this doesn't really matter anyways because it is already accounted for.
- mnomitch 4y agoI am generally an RCV fan, but I think you're writing off this critique a bit too quickly. Even with multiple axes the critique is still correct right? And I think (far from an expert) that there's decent evidence to support hotelling's law and median voter theorem.
- mkoubaa 4y agoI dont put critiques of voters in the same category as critiques of election systems.
- nerpderp82 4y agoThis is Neural Vector Space Voting, NVSV.
- godelski 4y ago> people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distance. Good news, that's not how it works. You are minimizing the distance in a hyperspace, not a single axis. People draw a singular axis (or two) to simplify and explain the concept. But still, the distance is measured in a hyperspace.