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« Reply #9375 on: April 19, 2010, 04:41:50 PM »

Mine is 0.077%

 Nice site, would have saved me a lot of prattling on earlier if I knew about it
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« Reply #9376 on: April 19, 2010, 04:49:46 PM »

I have 3xaverage which I shall be wasting
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« Reply #9377 on: April 19, 2010, 04:49:54 PM »

There's a video explanation too:

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« Reply #9378 on: April 19, 2010, 04:56:50 PM »

0.080%

Thought it was a safe seat,but thats still surprising.
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« Reply #9379 on: April 19, 2010, 04:57:39 PM »

I have 1.36x the UK average voting power - but three of the least inspirational choices possible.  They've also changed the boundaries of my constituency, so that might make a difference or not, maybe.
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« Reply #9380 on: April 19, 2010, 05:00:15 PM »

I don't really get this. I have 0.852 votes which is 3.37 x average. so 1 vote is equal to about 4 x average? is that right? surely 1 vote would be average?
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« Reply #9381 on: April 19, 2010, 05:01:51 PM »

I guess they are using a non mean average.
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« Reply #9382 on: April 19, 2010, 05:07:35 PM »

I guess they are using a non mean average.

yeah that'd make sense. seems odd though
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« Reply #9383 on: April 19, 2010, 05:09:42 PM »

I don't really get this. I have 0.852 votes which is 3.37 x average. so 1 vote is equal to about 4 x average? is that right? surely 1 vote would be average?

I've seen the site before, I think it's very much working towards it's own agenda and using the statistics to 'prove' that.

For example, when people say only a few votes count because the safe seats are sewn up they can use that to amend the averages - so it ignores the fact that all the people who vote in those safe seats for the winning party have got votes that count. I don't think I wrote that well, but does that make sense?
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« Reply #9384 on: April 19, 2010, 05:13:25 PM »

I don't really get this. I have 0.852 votes which is 3.37 x average. so 1 vote is equal to about 4 x average? is that right? surely 1 vote would be average?

I've seen the site before, I think it's very much working towards it's own agenda and using the statistics to 'prove' that.

For example, when people say only a few votes count because the safe seats are sewn up they can use that to amend the averages - so it ignores the fact that all the people who vote in those safe seats for the winning party have got votes that count. I don't think I wrote that well, but does that make sense?

yeah, makes sense and I agree. I abs hate that 'the election comes down to less than 100k voters' argument because it's complete bollocks and really flawed/skewed logic even though it sounds good
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« Reply #9385 on: April 19, 2010, 05:18:43 PM »

Although as a mathematician I'm quite impressed, because nothing they'd done is technically incorrect (like a lot of politicians do) - it's just the interpretation they use which give's it the narrative story they want - and because it's all numbers most people think that = proof.

You can analyse different voting systems with numbers but ultimately the strengths and weaknesses of different ways aren't statistical, they're subjective and political - the statistics just gives it a veneer of objectivity
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« Reply #9386 on: April 19, 2010, 05:30:12 PM »


Cant be bothered to research but is there any party offering zero per cent tax on earnings 0f £80k per year???

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« Reply #9387 on: April 19, 2010, 05:30:49 PM »

A vote for proportional representation is a vote for the BNP.
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« Reply #9388 on: April 19, 2010, 06:35:19 PM »


Cant be bothered to research but is there any party offering zero per cent tax on earnings 0f £80k per year???

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« Reply #9389 on: April 19, 2010, 06:39:36 PM »


Cant be bothered to research but is there any party offering zero per cent tax on earnings 0f £80k per year???

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