[Foundation-l] Board votes results
Marco Chiesa
chiesa.marco at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 17:28:20 UTC 2007
Anthony wrote:
>>
>>
>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 :).
>
>
It may be interesting to see how many people voted for exactly three
candidates. In some discussions in the early days of the votation a few
people on it.wp were convinced that they could cast a maximum of three
votes.
Cruccone
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