matt welland wrote:
<cue grumpy old man voice>
So I gave the opavote thing (nicely done site BTW) a try and had the
same experience I do with every ranked vote system. Choice overload and
decision freeze up. I literally hate ranking and I hope to <insert deity
of choice> these things don't take over.
Given how many people love the ranked systems I wonder if there is a
cultural or age thing at play here, that or I'm just more time starved
or dumber than ya'll but ... (I'll say it again) I HATE ranking.
Do you think you'd find it more palatable if it consisted of the machine
asking you "do you prefer this candidate to that candidate" a bunch of
times? It could do so in about n lg n questions, which would be around 87.
Real world elections would probably only involve 5-10 "real chance"
candidates, as well, not 20.
BTW, my response to complex decision making are not entirely out of the
"normal" range:
http://www.wealthinformatics.com/2011/06/29/too-many-choices-save-cost-money/
True. The economic system tends to give lots and lots of different
choices, too, because to differentiate is a way that a company may
extract profit beyond what it would in perfect competition. (The logic
behind this is that if the product was so different that there were
essentially no other providers of it, then the producer could price as
if it were a monopoly, which would give it privilege to set the price as
far high as it wanted.)
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