In Jonathan's example below I would expect the lone voter to be considered an outlier. Most, if not all, of the other voters would consider his idea to be the most extreme. I would expect the two large factions to move together to the North side of the room, leaving Solomon alone on the South side. The lone extremest would be a member of the first pair to be eliminated. If factions A and B are located at 11 O'clock and 1 O'clock, repectively, I would expect that faction C (for cut) to be located somewhere around 6 O'clock. In the case of ballots, the ballots would mostly be of the types A, AB, BA, and B, with perhaps a few scattered sicko AC's and BC's . The lone voter would have a ballot of C, CA, or CB. In any case the lone voter would be a member of the first pair to be eliminated. Forest Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 13:31:08 -0800 From: Jonathan Lundell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:37 AM -0800 1/6/07, Simmons, Forest wrote: >In a small group the voters are asked to form clusters around their >favorite candidates. After five minutes of shuffling around >positions are frozen. > >The two voters separated by the greatest distance are required to >sit down. This step is repeated until only one faction has any >voters left standing. Hmm. 100 voters on the left say give the baby to Mother A. 100 voters on the right say give the baby to Mother B. 1 voter in the middle, thoe compromiser, says cut the baby in half and give half to each mother. -- /Jonathan Lundell.
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