[EM] Majority-Judgement using adjectives versus alphabetical scales versus numerical ranges.

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 09:12:44 PST 2012


2012/12/8 ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <Walabio at macosx.com>

>         2012:12-08T08:30:24Z, Kristofer Munsterhjelm:
>
> >       On 12/08/2012 06:19 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote:
>
> >>      1.
>
> >>      This is my preferred range:
>
> >>      Negative -99 to positive +99
>
> >       The ponies already objected to your preferred range, and I think
> their objection has validity. If they find it too hard to find the right
> rating between -99 and +99, then they'll consider the method bad however
> you put it. Again, RBJ has voiced the same point here on the list: "Range
> asks for too much, Approval asks for too little".
>
>         ¡That is so last week!  I wish to find a way to merge Score-Voting
> and Majority-Judgement into something even better.
>
> In order to find something better, we would at least need to know what's
wrong with what we have. There seems to be a lot of disagreement about that
point; smart people can't agree on whether Score or MJ is better. So I
think research is in order before we tear off and design 15 new systems.

Jameson
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