I once met a man who claimed to understand the way Labour elect their leader but he also claimed to have Elvis’ phone number and a naked picture of my best friend’s fiance all of which he’d sell me for a fiver.
It does seem simple. It’s made up of a small number of pretty straightforward elements. All of the elements seem intuitively fair and simple. Judges judge, public votes, add ‘em, together, bish bash bosh. I don’t think at any point does it go non-linear.
Not sure if you’re refering to the tie-break in the Dance Off or the way tie-breaks in the judges’ scoring is handled.
I have been thinking about direct democracy quite a lot recently and if I have time will put up some of my posts on the subject. I think we should have more direct democracy in the UK. However, I quite like the idea of liquid democracy and there is an element of liquid democracy in the use of the judges to pick from the bottom two.
My proposed “improvement” for the handling of tie-breaks in the judges’ scoring is aimed at reducing the slight advantage that lower placed couples get by forcing a pure ranking rather than having tied places. It’s only an improvement if you feel that favouring weaker dancers is a bug, not a feature of the system. Reasonable people could disagree about the extent to which Strictly is a dancing programme with some celebrities or a celebrity programme with some dancing.
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It does seem simple. It’s made up of a small number of pretty straightforward elements. All of the elements seem intuitively fair and simple. Judges judge, public votes, add ‘em, together, bish bash bosh. I don’t think at any point does it go non-linear.
Not sure if you’re refering to the tie-break in the Dance Off or the way tie-breaks in the judges’ scoring is handled.
I have been thinking about direct democracy quite a lot recently and if I have time will put up some of my posts on the subject. I think we should have more direct democracy in the UK. However, I quite like the idea of liquid democracy and there is an element of liquid democracy in the use of the judges to pick from the bottom two.
My proposed “improvement” for the handling of tie-breaks in the judges’ scoring is aimed at reducing the slight advantage that lower placed couples get by forcing a pure ranking rather than having tied places. It’s only an improvement if you feel that favouring weaker dancers is a bug, not a feature of the system. Reasonable people could disagree about the extent to which Strictly is a dancing programme with some celebrities or a celebrity programme with some dancing.