[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

Fri Jun 6 14:49:10 UTC 2008

Hi Delphine,

Your questions make sense and I hope my answers will be of help:

Yes, you can rank any number of candidates any way you like. What
matters is the '''relative order''' of the numbers you assign to the
candidates, as the Schulze method only cares about relative rank. The
numbers are only a way for you to express this relative order of
ranking. For example, giving the candidate you dislike the most 50 or
173 does not matter, as long as you assign better (smaller) grades to
the others.
Unranked candidates are implicitly assumed to be less favored than all
the ranked ones, and the system assigns them the rank 100 (or was it
99?).

Harel

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Well, I tried, I really did. I read the wikipedia entries. In English
> *and* in French. But I still don't understand the Schulze method. I
> mean, I kind of understand that it's good (TM) and that it probably
> will end up choosing the best person for the position. But I don't
> understand the implications of what I vote and how I vote for some
> things.
>
> I am hoping that someone can make this clearer to me.
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> The explanation says (and I quote): "You may give the same preference
> to more than one candidate and may keep candidates unranked. It is
> presumed that you prefer all ranked candidates to all not ranked
> candidates and that you are indifferent between all not ranked
> candidates."
>
> #Question 1
> Does "you may give the same preference to more than one candidate"
> mean that I can rank three candidates with rank 1, three with rank 2 ,
> one with rank 3 and five with rank 4 (and so forth)?
>
> #Question 2
> Can I actually rank one candidate with rank 1, three candidates with
> rank 2 and 5 candidates with rank 15? That is, does the rank  (1, 2, 3
> etc.) actually matter in the overall results, or is rank always
> relative? (ie. If I rank 2 people with rank 1 and 10 with rank 15, the
> 10 will be counted as being my second choice, not as being "of rank
> 15")
>
> #Question 3
> What's the best way to go about making sure that a candidate is ranked
> as low as possible? Rank them at the lowest possible rank (this will
> of course depend on answers to question 2)? Or not rank them at all?
>
> I am not sure that my questions are clear. I hope so :-)
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Delphine
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