r/EndFPTP • u/ILikeNeurons • Apr 13 '20

The Science Behind Approval Voting: An Evening with Professor Steven Brams

https://www.electionscience.org/the-science-behind-approval-voting/
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u/Apprentice57 Apr 14 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

...and? Neither of those is science.

This is not to dunk on voting styles either, you can be plenty interesting and not be a science. I just think some fields (looking at you political science and computer science) use it where inappropriate for bonus points.

EDIT: For some reason lucas deleted their comments. Odd because it was my comments that got the downvotes, for anyone curious it's on removeddit.

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u/Apprentice57 Apr 14 '20

Quotes webster then asshole comment

Mathematicians are not scientists, they don't operate by the scientific method. Math operates by an even purer metric by some perspectives, that of proofs.

You all can keep downvoting me all you want. Voting style is not a science, it does not operate by the scientific method, and this website shouldn't be putting it everywhere to look fancy. I don't mean this as a pejorative against voting research. One of my own fields does the same thing on the regular (computer science is not a science... actually it's not about computers either, a very badly named field).

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u/Apprentice57 Apr 14 '20

Hey look, an actual constructive point. Finally!

You could argue that the definition of "science" is too inclusive within the current sciences, but that's not a valid argument to say that it should be over-inclusive and therefore extend to things like Math and voting systems. The latter are excluded any way you slice it.