Election Data

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 28 19:23:43 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> CLAY S (clay at brokenladder.com) said: 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but, to be blunt - that's not Fedora's problem. Really, we're just
> interested in having a working system that allows us to hold votes for
> decisions. Any data mining we do is likely to be solely for increasing
> participation. I don't think we, as a rule, are interested in using it
> as a shining example of anything.
> 

+1

-sv





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