It would be useful to have an example of how Variance Voting works. Also, the examples for the other methods are fantastic!
Thanks! I try to use concrete examples wherever possible, and especially when dealing with very abstract topics. Basically, if it was a real struggle for me to get to an understanding from existing sources, that signals to me that examples would be especially useful here, to make things easier on others.
In the case of Variance Voting, I think I stopped short of fully getting to an internalised, detailed understanding, partly because MacAskill doesn’t actually provide any numerical examples (only graphical illustrations and an abstract explanation). I’ll try read the paper he links to and then update this with an example.
I’ve now substantially updated/overhauled this article, partly in response to your feedback. One big thing was reading more about variance voting/normalisation and related ideas, and, based on that, substantially changing how I explain that idea and adding a (somewhat low confidence) worked example. Hope that helps make that section clearer.
If there are things that still seem unclear, and especially if anyone thinks I’ve made mistakes in the Variance Voting part, please let me know.
Thanks! I try to use concrete examples wherever possible, and especially when dealing with very abstract topics. Basically, if it was a real struggle for me to get to an understanding from existing sources, that signals to me that examples would be especially useful here, to make things easier on others.
In the case of Variance Voting, I think I stopped short of fully getting to an internalised, detailed understanding, partly because MacAskill doesn’t actually provide any numerical examples (only graphical illustrations and an abstract explanation). I’ll try read the paper he links to and then update this with an example.
I’ve now substantially updated/overhauled this article, partly in response to your feedback. One big thing was reading more about variance voting/normalisation and related ideas, and, based on that, substantially changing how I explain that idea and adding a (somewhat low confidence) worked example. Hope that helps make that section clearer.
If there are things that still seem unclear, and especially if anyone thinks I’ve made mistakes in the Variance Voting part, please let me know.