Do real voters have more than three categories for candidates?
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Do real voters have more than three categories for candidates?
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@jack-waugh I certainly do
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@andy-dienes said in Do real voters have more than three categories for candidates?:
@jack-waugh I certainly do
I think I do, but need clarification on what is meant here. Do you mean more than 3 ranks/ratings? Like if voting under 0-100 cardinal ballots, would I want to use more than 3 different values for candidates in an 8 person race? Yes, generally, but depends on how closely I knew the candidates and how much I cared. (I vote in local elections with ranked choice, and often don't bother ranking ones that I don't know well enough to have a real opinion on them)
Or are you talking about something else? Republican vs democrat vs other? Or what?
In general, though, I am not a black and white thinker, so I do view things as lying on a spectrum rather than having discrete categories with hard lines. I think choose-one voting encourages the opposite way of thinking (i.e. discrete categories), where they are either on your team or not, and I think that is destructive.
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but need clarification on what is meant here.
yeah fair enough. I think the way I'm interpreting it, if you gave me 40 candidates and asked me to rank them, I would be able to easily sort into 5 or 6 piles, and then have to think harder for the actual order inside each pile.
