In an attempt to be the Most Annoying Buffista Ever, I have to say that I don't know the word "plurality" in this context -- it means "the biggest number"?
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
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John H - Mar 03, 2003 5:26:05 pm PST #6395 of 10001
Betsy HP - Mar 03, 2003 5:27:20 pm PST #6396 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
If the vote goes 35-33-32, 35 is the plurality. So yup.
Jon B. - Mar 03, 2003 5:27:49 pm PST #6397 of 10001
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I don't know the word "plurality" in this context -- it means "the biggest number"?
Yes. The choice that receives more votes than any other single choice.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2003 5:28:29 pm PST #6398 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
this is a long, detailed, Buffistish conversation whose goal is to be the last of its kind
Okay -- I voted for at least 4 days of discussion. We've had one. How are we killing one day discussions?
John H - Mar 03, 2003 5:28:50 pm PST #6399 of 10001
I understood that "majority" meant "a number more than half".
I understood that "simple majority" meant fifty-per-cent-plus-one and that the other choice meant, for example, sixty-per-cent-plus-one, seventy-per-cent-plus-one, etc.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2003 5:36:06 pm PST #6400 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, you know what? I think we should try preferential voting for JUST these two issues, and then we should do our damnedest to make yes/no questions in the future.
Although, I personally am not sure how I'll do ranking, because I know the One Right Answer.
(Honestly, the next thing I put forward is going to be Put Jesse In Charge of Everything.)
Also, all the "Auisitiriailiiiaini" stuff cracked me up.
That is all. Let me know when y'all want me to vote.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2003 5:37:07 pm PST #6401 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shit. That wasn't all. It happens in Cambridge relatively often that the frontrunner loses, because everyone assumes they will win and so they give their #1 votes to someone else as a gesture. So it does happen In Real Life.
Betsy HP - Mar 03, 2003 5:37:37 pm PST #6402 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Works for me, Jesse. Both on your becoming Arbitrix of Everything (where do you stand on dark chocolate?) and on doing a preferential vote just this once.
DavidS - Mar 03, 2003 5:38:07 pm PST #6403 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I understood majority as greater than 50%.
John H - Mar 03, 2003 5:44:48 pm PST #6404 of 10001
everyone assumes they will win and so they give their #1 votes to someone else as a gesture
What happens a lot here is that people also use their second vote as a kind of a hint -- I'll vote for Gore, because I hate Bush, but hey, Gore, look how I'm putting Nader second. I'm not a left-swinging rightwinger, pal, in case you were confused...