On 7/18/07, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:31:20PM -0400, Anthony wrote:
Is there any chance of getting an anonymized list of all votes in the recent board election made public? I'm especially interested in how many people voted for only one candidate, but it'd also be interesting to see the various groupings of votes. The low percentage "approval" of the winners is probably a symptom of many people voting for only one candidate, but there are other possibilities.
Perhaps a compromise?
Perhaps not made public, but attaching a developer/ statistician/ mathematician / wearer of funny hats temporarily to the election committee to do some statistical wrangling should be possible without TOO much trouble, I'd think.
For your information Election committee is discussing how to answer Anthony as body, I have a distance from this discussion for spending my time for more wikivacationique activities ;D
However, I would like you to remark that it is not the case. Election Committee per se have no ability to generate such statistics unless they will be granted the access to the results in detail. Right now only our third party partner have an access to detailed data (who voted whom) and temporal joining wouldn't be a solution.
We can then all look at the statistics (s)he's making, and maybe ask them more questions, as necessary, without any of the worries of making the actual result-set public.
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