Hello everyone, I'm Ignas Rubikas from Lithuania, ManoSeimas.lt project (in English, MyParliament), and I was recommended by Tony Bowden to ask here regarding PublicWhip.org. We are developing a new test about MPs and parties based on their voting track record. The principle is that the user would "vote" and find how well her choices correspond with each of the MPs and parties votings regarding specific questions, and thus find which MPs/parties best represent her attitudes on the given questions.
We thought of doing the questions one-to-one with votings, but it turned out that some good questions have more than one (or even ten) associated votings. So, we decided to cluster them into broader categories, which seem to be equivalent to "Policies" in PublicWhip: http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/policies.php . However, it turned out that formulating the questions/Policies so as to avoid biases & subjectivity, and assigning relevant votings is a serious job. There might be important lessons to learn from PublicWhip and others in this group. I wondered if anyone here could advise me on what is the best way to go on with this task? What should I keep in mind or avoid while doing these things? I haven't contacted PublicWhip.org team yet, maybe it's best to do this first? best regards, Ignas
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