[EM] Poll for favorite single-winner voting system with OpaVote

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

matt welland wrote:
> <cue grumpy old man voice>
> So I gave the opavote thing (nicely done site BTW) a try and had the
> same experience I do with every ranked vote system. Choice overload and
> decision freeze up. I literally hate ranking and I hope to <insert deity
> of choice> these things don't take over.
> 
> Given how many people love the ranked systems I wonder if there is a
> cultural or age thing at play here, that or I'm just more time starved
> or dumber than ya'll but ... (I'll say it again) I HATE ranking. 

Do you think you'd find it more palatable if it consisted of the machine 
asking you "do you prefer this candidate to that candidate" a bunch of 
times? It could do so in about n lg n questions, which would be around 87.

Real world elections would probably only involve 5-10 "real chance" 
candidates, as well, not 20.

> BTW, my response to complex decision making are not entirely out of the
> "normal" range:
> 
> http://www.wealthinformatics.com/2011/06/29/too-many-choices-save-cost-money/

True. The economic system tends to give lots and lots of different 
choices, too, because to differentiate is a way that a company may 
extract profit beyond what it would in perfect competition. (The logic 
behind this is that if the product was so different that there were 
essentially no other providers of it, then the producer could price as 
if it were a monopoly, which would give it privilege to set the price as 
far high as it wanted.)