Well said. I have become convinced of that, especially after this discussion. I think we will want to defer ANY publicly viewable compilation of votes for a given user's posts.
Why? It doesn't seem to cause any problems on TripAdvisor. Sure, T/A has its own problems; but this isn't one of them, IMO.
Originally Posted by
intuition
Well, that is not entirely mathematically true either. I'm lacking the correct word in english, but a 59% to 39% result won by 20 percentage units, not by 20%. In fact, it won by 51%, ie the winning side is 51% larger than the losing side (59/39=1,51).
If only television commentators during U.S. elections understood this. They simply calculate the difference between the percentages and report this. So, in this case, 20, not 51. Grrrr.....
Originally Posted by
intuition
About the landslide, I guess that term is somewhat dependent on ones cultural environment. For me personally a 60-40 is nowhere near a landslide. For me, a 60-40 contains one small majority and one large minority.
I used to be in the campaign management and polling business in the U.S. 55/45 was a clear victory. Much above that, and certainly above 60/40, the loser was often said (in the business) to have "received the beating s/he richly deserved."