Adam, you may find the tool discussed here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates#Candidates_Compass:_One_statement,_all_answers> to be helpful. It is created by one of the candidates, is based on the information submitted by candidates for the election compass, and is quite visual. (Disclosure: I am also a candidate.)
I'd also suggest that the written answers illustrate the differences between candidates a little more specifically than the general five-point compass. Perhaps, also, part of the reason that there's some consensus amongst candidates (at least on the surface) is that they could be representative of a pretty broad consensus throughout the global community on some points. Risker/Anne On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 09:26, Adam Wight <adam.m.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:02 PM Kaarel Vaidla <kvai...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Additionally, we are piloting a so-called “Election Compass >> <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>” for this election. Click >> yourself through the tool and respond to the 19 statements, and you will >> see which candidate is closest to you! >> > > Hi, thank you for facilitating this process and for sharing the > interesting "election compass" experiment. After trying the tool, I urge > you to take it offline. Its algorithm is opaque, and in my opinion very > unlikely to give a helpful result. It's explicitly meant to influence how > we vote, but without us having done any validation of what it's actually > calculating. If you want to test this tool, you could position it as an > "exit poll", to compare the tool's results with how each person actually > voted, or you could turn off the "alignment" scoring. > > My suspicions started with the fact that I answered "strongly support" or > "support" to almost every question, which suggests that the axes were not > chosen in a way that differentiates between the candidates. Instead, it > seems like it's going to amplify tiny differences like "strongly" vs > "support"—is this true? > > Was the tool analyzed with this sort of concern in mind? Are there > reasons to believe that the "alignment" scores are meaningful in our > scenario? > > Kind regards, > Adam Wight > [[mw:User:Adamw]] > Writing in my volunteer capacity. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/ORUIO7XSLVBBW57GIVPG53LJA3CIBNDG/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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