Election Data

CLAY S clay at brokenladder.com
Mon Jul 28 18:56:36 UTC 2008


having that be optional really hurts the value of the data for scientific
study, since there is probably a correlation between how strategic a voter
is and how likely he is to click that.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:30, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 13:31 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> > Perhaps a good solution is to allow participants to opt in on a per-vote
> > basis: a checkbox that says "I consent to having my anonymized vote
> > published" could appear right on the vote form. (Vote data should also
> > be randomly ordered so that time-correlation is not possible).
>
> This I like best, because it's a per voter, per instance thing, rather
> than a set of voters today deciding things for sets of voters in the
> future.
>
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