njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) (11/15/89)
Well, a week ago, I posted asking people to send me their preferences
for a name to the group that I had proposed. I recieved 30 votes
through the mail, 27 of which were more or less in the format I
requested.
A couple of people picked the name they liked from the list, and sent
me email with just that name, indicating that they didn't want any
other name. A couple of other people gave me their first couple of
preferences, and then gave me nothing for the remaining votes.
Because of this, I changed the way I counted votes slightly. One
thing that I did was that I allowed for fractional votes. If a person
had voted for two separate categories at the same level, I allowed a
proportional fractional vote in each non-eliminated category. And if
the vote was equal to the highest number voted by that voter, I did
not transfer it nor count it in the tally. This was done in a vote
counting program that I wrote, having received none in the mail.
As it turned out, neither of these things mattered in this case.
Fractional votes did not come up, and rec.sport.pro-wrestling won
outright, having gotten more than 1/2 the first place votes as a first
choice. But the program is written.
To illustrate the STV, I'll ask the program to give me a 99% majority:
$ stv .99 categ votes
Total vote count is 31, more than 30.69 votes required to win.
rec.sport.wrestling 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00
rec.sport.pro-wrestling 20.00 20.00 21.00 23.00 31.00
rec.arts.wrestling 1.00 1.00
rec.arts.pro-wrestling 2.00 2.00 2.00
rec.sport.wwf 0.00
$
In English: No one voted for rec.sport.wwf, so that was the first
category eliminated. On the second round, rec.arts.wrestling, with
only one vote, was eliminated. That person's second choice was
rec.sport.pro-wrestling, so the vote was transferred to that category.
The next category to go was rec.arts.pro-wrestling, with 2 votes. One
of those people's second choice was rec.sport.pro-wrestling, so that
vote transferred directly. The other's second preference was
rec.arts.wrestling, but that category was already eliminated, and
their third preference was rec.sport.pro-wrestling, so the vote
transferred there.
In the same manner, votes from rec.sport.wrestling transferred. The
31 total matches the number of votes cast, indicating that
rec.sport.wrestling was no one's last choice. Examination of the raw
vote data indicates that, in fact, it was no worse than third for
anyone.
I believe that this represents a consensus on the name of the group.
Providing that there is no major dissent, I'm going to issue a call
for votes on Monday.
The raw vote data. See if you count it the same way I do.
1 3 2 4 5 uunet!samsung!schizo!mailrus!wuarchive!East.Sun.COM!evan (Evan Marcus (Sun NJ Systems Consultant))
2 1 2 2 2 Tom Griffin <griffin@blake.acs.washington.edu>
1 2 3 4 37 RICKENBACH <mentor@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
4 1 3 2 5 uunet!pyrdc!eliot!reidc (Reid Carson/Development)
2 1 3 4 5 J Menes <uunet!garage.att.com!jcm>
1 2 3 3 3 Shane Rollans <rsrollans@violet.waterloo.edu>
2 1 4 3 5 dciem!cognos!larryw (Larry Williams)
5 1 3 2 4 uunet!mtsu.edu!csjoey (mr. joey carruthers)
5 3 2 1 4 uunet!solsta.ericsson.se!etxtsg (Thomas Grennefors)
5 1 4 2 3 tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM
4 1 3 2 5 uunet!jarthur!jbillone
4 1 2 3 5 Herb Kunze <hekunze@trillium.waterloo.edu>
3 1 3 2 3 Bengt Larsson <bengtl@maths.lth.se>
1 3 2 4 5 CONTICELLO <booledog%vax1.acs.udel.edu@yktvmh.watson.ibm.com>
3 2 1 4 5 heath@astro.as.utexas.edu (James Heath)
1 2 3 4 5 Scott Davis <mccall!scott@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
2 1 4 3 5 hearth@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Don Hearth)
2 1 4 3 5 uunet!ccird4!rlgvax!lab (NY JETS Head Coach)
3 1 4 2 5 "Tony R. Marasco" <uunet!PSUVM!TRM900>
2 1 4 3 5 uunet!Solbourne.COM!rwg (Rick Gillespie)
4 1 2 3 5 uunet!CS.UCLA.EDU!ucla-cs!oahu.cs.ucla.edu!reeves (John F. Reeves)
4 2 3 1 5 uunet!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!dav (William David Haas)
1 3 2 4 5 Byron C. Howes <uunet!uncecs.edu!bch>
1 2 4 5 3 uunet!lzatt.att.com!drv (Dennis R Vogel)
2 1 2 2 2 uunet!ncar.UCAR.EDU!woods (Greg Woods)
2 1 4 3 5 uunet!cs.utah.edu!u-wbills@sunset (Wade Bills)
2 1 2 2 2 uunet!ateng.ateng.com!chip (Chip Salzenberg)
4 1 2 3 4 uunet!harpo.med.ge.com!scott (Scott Woskoff x4-6810)
2 1 4 3 5 Geoff Allen <uunet!pmafire!geoff>
1 2 3 4 5 uunet!ihlpc!walli (Gene V Walli +1 312 713 4205)
4 1 2 3 5 scifi!njs (Nick Simicich)
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