[QED QS] Top-3...(1)

Day 2,628, 04:03 Published in Belgium Belgium by Boklevski

Top-3… Things We Disagree On

Let me present you with a first result of the QED (Quantitative Electoral Demographics). QED is based on a survey filled by YOU… unless you haven’t filled it in yet, in which case you can still do so here: http://goo.gl/forms/4peQQNdA6M.

The Top-3 Things We Disagree On are:
1. Immigration Rules - regulated borders (rules for immigration) vs. open borders (no immigration rules).
2. HOF/HC – Yes or no to Honorable Foreigner and/or Honorary Citizen status.
3. In-game PM communication – The question whether we should use in-game PMs as main communication channel, or not.

I'll get into details in a later article, but it would be nice to hear the stances of the CP candidates on these much disputed topics!

Boklevski
QED Researcher




Methodology
How much we agree on something is calculated by determining the Standard Deviation. This means I take the Average of a given answer, and then determine the distance from that average for each single answer. The higher the distance, the more we disagree on something.

Example – I’m going to skip the exact math using square roots, etc., as this should clear it up enough.

All questions are on a scale from 1 to 6. If you select 1, you choose option 1; if you select 6, you choose option 2. Anything in between is choosing something… in between.

If we have 4 responses being 3, 3, 4 and 4, the average is 3.5. The distance from each answer to the average is 0.5.

If we would have answers 1, 1, 6 and 6, the average is still 3.5. However, the distance from each answer to the average is now 2.5.

In the first case, we pretty much agree with the average 3.5; in the latter case, we don’t.

Notice that the average doesn’t have to be 3.5! If I would have the answers 1, 1, 2 and 2, the average is 1.5. The distance from each answer to the average is thus 0.5. We basically agree as much as in the first example (both 0.5), although we agree that option 1 has the preference.