Life With AlacrityA blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools, by Christopher Allen.Collective Choice: Rating Systems- December 13, 2005 In our previous article we talked about the many systems available for collective choice. One purpose of our previous article was to create a dictionary of terms for talking about these related, but clearly different, systems. Another was to start offering analyses of these systems, many of which had not been well studied before their introduction onto the Internet. This article provides more in-depth coverage of one of the systems we previously outlined: rating systems. Post continueshttp://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/12/collective_choi.html Systems for Collective Choice- December 2, 2005 Collective choice systems have been around for a long time. Since at least the birth of democracy in ancient Greece people have made joint decisions about important issues, and since at least the knightly tournaments of the late Middle Age people have competed to be ranked against their peers. Today Western culture especially values diversity of input when implementing any type of choice, believing that wide input from a variety of people provides the fairest result. post continues with...http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/12/systems_for_col.html |