[EM] Nontechnical words for cardinal and ordinal categories?

[Jameson Quinn]

2012/6/21 Richard Fobes <ElectionMethods at votefair.org>

> I agree that the name "score ballot" or "score voting" is relatively
> self-evident.
>
> In contrast, "rated ballot" and "rated voting" are ambiguous (similar to
> "preferential ballot" being ambiguous).
>

They're meant to be ambiguous. That is to say, they're general categories,
not specific systems.

Jameson

>
> And I agree that "cardinal" and "ordinal" are not clear.  Plus many people
> are going to associate those words with birds, not numbers.
>
> On 6/21/2012 9:59 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> "Rated ballots" or "Rated voting" is an okay term, i guess, and i don't
>> think that "Range voting" was very meaningful to me when i first read
>> the term from Warren's site. but "Score voting" immediately had meaning.
>> i knew right away what it meant, and when i use the term to talk with
>> non-technical people interested about voting issues (usually after the
>> nasty IRV battle we had here), i always say "Score voting" and compare
>> it to judging at an athletic performance, like Olympic gymnastics. then
>> people know exactly what i mean. to a person, no one liked the idea of
>> rating candidates as their official expression of their vote.
>>
>>
>
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