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<p>The best kept secret in electoral reform is that the General
Medical Council, in Britain, used to elect all white male GPs
First Past The Post. Until in 1979, STV proportionally represented
women, immigrants and specialists, in the National Health Service.
(The Best System, by The Electoral Reform Society, 1984. Centenary
celebration. archive.org )</p>
<p>Hollywood (or whoever) who I believe use RCV (ranked choice
voting) could apply an At-large RCV proportional count (alias
STV/PR). And its conventional film categories would "show"
likewise proportionally represented.</p>
<p>STV would be better than a points system, from the scientific
viewpoint of the scales of measurement. A points system implies an
interval scale (with no true zero, like a temperature scale, such
as Centigrade). STV implies a more powerful ratio scale. With
traditional STV the ratio scale only applies to the election count
but experience has shown this to be sufficiently robust. And there
is not much difference between STV versions in the results. <br>
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<p>Nevertheless, Traditional STV only uses an ordinal scale "last
past the post" kind exclusion count. Binomial STV uses both a
rational election count and a rational exclusion count, which is
just an iteration, with the preferences reversed. However, the
fact that Binomial STV gives voters the power to exclude, as well
as elect candidates, means that it should give significantly
different, perhaps more comprehensive assessments of positive and
negative voter attitudes.<br>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Richard Lung.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/02/2023 21:27, Toby Pereira
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<div>I've long thought that the IMDb top 250 list
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_250&sort=user_rating">https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_250&sort=user_rating</a>
would be more interesting if it was done using a
sequential PR method. That way you would likely get more
of people's absolute favourite films rather than those
with broad appeal, but which might not be right at the top
of people's lists. You're more likely to see differents
genres represented etc.</div>
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<div>Anyway, not that it will do anything, but I Tweeted at
them today with my suggestion here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/toby_pereira/status/1624513669332717569">https://twitter.com/toby_pereira/status/1624513669332717569</a></div>
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<div>By the way, I definitely think that Sequential
proportional score voting
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sequential_proportional_score_voting">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sequential_proportional_score_voting</a>
(also known as SPAV + KP) is the best method for this.
When you're electing an essentially unlimited number of
items in a sequential manner, you do not want to be
messing about with quotas etc. A Thiele method is ideal
for this, and as it's for scores (well stars), I consider
this to be the best version as it passes multiplicative
and additive scale invariance, which other methods do not.
IMDb uses a 1 to 10 star scale, and if 1 was subtracted
from every score to make it 0 to 9, then the results under
Sequential proportional score voting would be identical.</div>
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<div>I don't generally use Twitter, but feel free to engage
with the Tweet to like retweet etc. so it can gain more
traction (if you agree with it obviously).</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I know that this is a more
"trivial" matter than is normally discussed, but I see it as
a demonstration that electoral methods have uses outside of
elections for public office.</div>
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