Posted: May 17, 2018 9:58 pm
newolder wrote:Xerographica wrote:newolder wrote:Xerographica wrote:...
Let me break down what I'm proposing...
1. People would voluntarily vote for their favorite skeptics.
2. People would voluntarily donate to this forum.
3. Donors would specify who their favorite skeptics are.
4. We would compare how donors and voters rank skeptics.
Where's the problem?
You will learn that voters think voting is the best ranking method and donors think otherwise. Some may do both and that will contaminate the signal you seek.
I don't think that there's any guarantee that somebody who only votes will like the voting ranking more than the donating ranking.
I agree, there's no guarantee that this exercise will yield any useful data at all - with the possible exception of being useful as a random number generator.
I think it's useful to be able to compare your rankings with our rankings. Assuming, of course, that our rankings accurately reflect our true priorities/preferences.