Re: Democratic process

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:15:23 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
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Arne Babenhauserheide writes:

> Ian Clarke writes:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 2:56 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab-S0/[email protected]
>> wrote:This, written in a thread where I show a cleaner method of evaluation
>>
>> along with an implementation of a way to see which reasoning can
>>
>> actually be taken from the poll as it was conducted.
>>
>>
>> What is your specific proposal, because apparently I missed it. All I saw were
>> you mentioning a variety of alternatives that are not suitable because they do
>> not retain the ordinality of people's estimates.
>
> My specific proposal is to use several different methods of ordering the
> tasks by the votes given (value divided by cost estimate) and taking a
> subset which is highly ranked in all the different methods of evaluation
> (except for the ill-defined one which divides the mean by the spread of
> the votes). This is the set for which it is possible to give the robust
> answer that it is preferred by the people casting the votes.
>
> When I do that with the top 10, I get 6 which are ranked in all the
> methods. Even just using mean and median should at least make this a bit
> more resilient.

Clearer, with the preliminary evaluation, out of the top 10 (by mean
value), 6 entries are robust in that position and 4 of the 6 are
non-controversial.

Taken the other way around:

* For 4 entries there is *non-controversial* agreement that they deliver
  the largest value per cost. Their position in the top 10 is robust.

* For 2 further entries, there is a *majority* agreement that they
  deliver the largest value per cost, but the values differ
  widely. Their position is robust, but there is no consensus.

> I do not find the word ordinality in my dictionary. What does it mean exactly?

Best wishes,
Arne
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