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Borda Count Doesn’t Have to Care whether You Complete Your Ballot
Can we make Borda Count resilient against strategic voting? Yes. Let’s see how it works.… Continue reading Borda Count Doesn’t Have to Care whether You Complete Your Ballot → Read more
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Which Voting System Could be Best for Our Polarized Politics?
What voting system should we turn to in this partisan moment? The answer might depend on what we want our elections to do.… Continue reading Which Voting System Could be Best for Our Polarized Politics? → Read more
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NBA Player Salary Converter
How does Kobe Bryant’s $30.5 million salary in 2014, Michael Jordan’s $33.1 million salary in 1998, or Allan Houston’s $19.1 million salary in 2006 compare to NBA salaries today? This little tool lets you convert a past NBA player’s salary to a current equivalent or a current NBA player’s salary to a roughly equivalent salary…… Read more
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Voting on Who Gets the Ventilator
The Situation: Limited Resources There is only one ventilator — or liver, or hospital bed, or any other potentially life-saving resource — at your hospital, but many people need it and are eligible for it. You are part of a group that must decide who gets the ventilator. You all agree about what kinds of…… Read more
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The Objectively Best Pokemon Type, According to Game Theory
Pokemon is famous for its rock-paper-scissors dynamics — water type pokemon beat fire type pokemon, fire types beats grass types, and grass types beats water types. But the Pokemon type matchups are much more complicated than your typical game of rock-paper-scissors. Not only are there a ludicrous 18 different types of pokemon, but their matchups…… Read more
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Is Ranked Choice Voting the Hero We Need? (Part 2)
What if the Voters Want What Voters Actually Want? In our first look into this topic, we used a simple model of voters and candidates to find some mixed results for Ranked Choice voting. It performed better than the Plurality system that dominates US elections, but it was outclassed by its systems and didn’t always…… Read more