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Maybe the median would be better than the mean? Any number lower than the median and more then 50% of the employees would want it higher, any number bigger and
by fela 13y ago
Maybe the median would be better than the mean? Any number lower than the median and more then 50% of the employees would want it higher, any number bigger and more than 50% would want it lower. It also protects from strategic voting: if you use the mean a person could strategically give a higher value that his ideal result, if he things the others will on average vote too low.
- waqf 13y agoAgreed. It protects from strategic voting (or incompetence or malice) of a small number of participants, because it's a robust statistic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics#Examples.