[EM] RE : Naive question about Range Voting -- why 0-99 and not 0-100?

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Mon Nov 20 12:18:57 PST 2006


Monkey,

--- Monkey Puzzle <araucaria.araucana at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is there any reason to not allow range voting with scores between 0
> and 100?  If the intent is to allow a full range of voter expression,
> why not go the extra point?  I thought the whole idea was to avoid
> imposing a structural restriction on the voters.

Warren came to the conclusion after a survey he conducted that 0 to
100 gives some the impression that the assigned scores must total 100.
He supposes that a ceiling of 99 would lessen this impression.

See http://www.math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html, paper 82.

Kevin Venzke


	

	
		
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