DIY Challenge 3: Design your own voting method
Imagine that there are 4 options of food and 4 friends to choose the dish. If you had the power to decide the voting method, what would be you do? What rules would you use? Can you think of a new voting method and rules to decide the dish?
What students worked out4
Student 2
this way
Student 3
IN THIS EXAMPLE
BY PLURALITY WINNER IS POPCORN VS DONUT
BY POINTS WINNER IS POPCORN (8) VS FISH (8)IF WE ADD ONE MORE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION- LEAST PREFERRED DISHES WILL NOT BE ORDERED THEN
FISH WILL BE WINNER. IT HAS MOST POINTS AND MOST PREFERRED BY MOST OF PEOPLEStudent 3
WE CAN RATHER SAY NEGATIVE VOTING
LIKE IN ABOVE EXAMPLE WE CAN GIVE
2
1
-1
-2
POINTS BY PREFERENCEIN THIS CASE FISH WILL BE WINNER WITH 4 POINTS UNDOUBTEDLY
Student 3
ITS A SAME WAY HOW WE HAVE IN EXAMS