On 7/18/07, Kim Bruning <kim(a)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.
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.
I don't think it's a good idea to give someone such information unless
*everyone* gets it.
I can understand not wanting to make the information public, although
just releasing a breakdown of the number of votes made seems harmless.
For instance, something like:
0 votes: 12
1 vote: 56
2 votes: 23
3 votes: 98
4 votes: 42
5 votes: 33
6 votes: 23
7 votes: 21
8 votes: 44
9 votes: 65
I'm not sure how useful that's going to be, it'd certainly be *more
useful* to know the actual correlations, but it'd be somewhat useful
to see how many people are voting exactly 1 vote, or exactly 3
candidates, or 0 candidates, or n-1 candidates, or n candidates (where
n is the total number of candidates, which I believe was 12).
Next time, we need exit polls :).