On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 20:55 -0600, Paul Kislanko wrote: > Jiri Räsänen asked: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am new to this list. I am interested for possible ways to visualize > > the votes tallying and the results for Beatpath method. > > > > Previously I have done some campaigning for the use of STV and found > > out that once I could draw the graphical version of the vote > > counting, > > people would get the feeling that they understand what's going on. > > Before this, when explaining the system, people were scratching their > > heads. > > > > For Beatpath this might be a harder thing to do, but I'm sure there > > must be some ways to present the vote counting in a visual > > and dynamic > > way that is sensible for the functioning of the system. > > > > My personal experience is that people would go to the extreme > > to avoid > > thinking. As most of you propably have experienced people > > just bluntly > > saying "oh, that is too complicated" when you try to explain a voting > > system. A good visualization can give a person a sense that he/she > > somehow grasps what's going on, although more comprehensive > > understangin may remain unaccomlished. > > > > For the matter of political reform in any instance outside computer > > scientist and mathematicians, I think a good visualization will be > > essential. > > > > I did a search on this list on visualization, but found not much > > useful. Has anyone of you privately been thinking of ways to > > visualize > > Beatpath or other Condorcet methods? > > I doubt that there's any way to graphically show the difference beteen > ranked-pairs and beatpath (for instance), but to just demonstrate how ranked > ballots show the preponderance of voters' opinions graphically, I used this > http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/1048/317514.gif > > In that "election" (really a "sports poll" about which is the best team) > there was a #1 and "everybody else", but the "everybody else" part is a > pretty good picture of why you need to analyze the ballots in various ways > (i.e. beatpath vs ranked pairs, minmax, etc.) > I'm sorry, I don't get it - what exactly does this graph mean? The axis are unlabeled.
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