Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by quadrangle on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:40PM
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STAR has never been used in a public election. At some point, we can't both argue about lack of evidence and against getting the evidence.
http://star.vote is not a controlled scientific survey or anything, but people overall seem to have no trouble using the full range.
In fact, in my anecdotal experience, even over years in the past when I told people about plain score voting and tried to get them not to use the full range (because I misunderstood that issue myself), many people insisted that they would use the full range anyway. A lot of people find it intuitive to give their favorite all the points they can.
But the real answer is that, yes, we need more studies and trials of all these things.
http://star.vote is not a controlled scientific survey or anything, but people overall seem to have no trouble using the full range.
In fact, in my anecdotal experience, even over years in the past when I told people about plain score voting and tried to get them not to use the full range (because I misunderstood that issue myself), many people insisted that they would use the full range anyway. A lot of people find it intuitive to give their favorite all the points they can.
But the real answer is that, yes, we need more studies and trials of all these things.