The only question is: how should we assign weights to voters? What's the formula, man? Well, my answer is simple: I don't know yet. But weight should probably depend on education, average earnings, number of children in family and all that social stuff. We don't want some sociopath make decisions for us, right?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Weighted voting for president elections
It's totally true that choosing new president for your country is quite important decision. And it's also true that some people are clever, and some are not. I understand all that democracy stuff, but why should we care about some junky opinion as much, as about the Noble Prize laureate's one. Solution of this problem is well known in machine learning. It's called weighted voting and consists of assigning weights to the each voter and then combining votes together with weights being taken into account.
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Hey, man, they already tried that in early 1900th, wake up =) And way earlier too.
ReplyDeleteThere's no problem of wrong people voting, however, when everybody are equal, you can't argue like this: "It wasn't me who voted for this jerk, 'smarter' ones did that."
They've tried? Really? Need a proof!
ReplyDeleteHuh, I've been looking for the proof you wanted for some days now, but I could only find a resource in Russian. Here is the link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rusempire.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=442&Itemid=202
I'm not strong enough at historical English, so you should use Google translate or something.
Fine, idea is similar. But I suggest taking intelligence into account more than social status.
ReplyDeleteThere is definitely a correlation between the social status and the "intelligence". Moreover, you can only measure "intelligence" by means of the social status, or making people undergo some testing ("an electoral-intelligence testing", huh).
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