The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.
I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.
A million percent AI.
What is it about role-playing that's strictly masculine? Like, why does the group have to be gendered?
Put some soles on these and make thieves wear them instead of throwing them in jail.
You seem to have not actually said that, though.
What is the law, but a bunch of rules we made up?
RCV fails the Sincere Favorite Criterion. People claim that it's safe to vote honestly under RCV, but that's actually not true. Sometimes you're better-off by demoting your favorite or even not voting at all This stems from RCV's non-monotonicity problem, where increasing support for a candidate can cause them to do worse (or vice versa). This is an unacceptable failure.
If you want to see some of the whacky results RCV can produce, play around with this spacial election simulation tool. I'm not kidding when I say this is the first result I got, which I set up in literally five seconds while blind to the RCV calculation. The green candidate has three completely separate win regions and they're not even inside any of them. When green is obviously the most popular candidate, they lose. That's completely unacceptable.
I'm not sure what you're on about with approval voting having extra steps compared to choose one. If anything, RCV is the one with extra steps. Even in the previous link, RCV is noticably slower to calculate.
Approval is used in both Fargo and St. Louis. The number of votes people tend to cast depends on how many candidates are running. The 2021 St. Louis primary had 4 candidates and voters averaged 1.56 votes cast. Since it would be moronic to vote for all 4 candidates, a likely vote distribution would have been something like 50% 1 vote, 40% 2 votes, 10% 3 votes. The 2022 Fargo election had similar results, with elections averaging 1.6 and 3 votes per ballot. In large fields, you can get some very high number of votes.
It's popular, it's accurate, it's simple as hell.
The trees can't be harmed, if the lorax is armed.
It would make more sense as "every city in US is a third world hellhole" otherwise there's no irony.
Seahorse, you must have terrabytes of memes saved up and I'm so here for it all.
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Probably the first time I've ever looked at a presidential lineup and simply hoped the two front-runners fall over dead as soon as possible.