New subtitle for Equality-by-Lot

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Yoram Gat

This is to announce the results of the vote for a new subtitle for this blog.

Terry Bouricius has done the hard work of collecting the ranked choice lists and converting them to pairwise comparison matrices. Thanks, Terry!

Following Terry’s instructions, I have summed the matrices and produced the sum matrix. Candidate subtitle #6 has a clear advantage, beating almost all other candidates in a head-to-head comparison. The sole exception is candidate #26 which is tied with #6 at 8 votes each. However, Terry assures me that despite this tie, due to tie-breaking considerations, candidate #6 is the undisputed winner.

Reflecting this result, I will start taking steps to change the subtitle of this blog to “The democratic potential of sortition”.

I thank everybody for contributing candidates and registering their votes. Again I encourage the proposers and voters to take part in this blog in other ways as well.

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keithsutherland, on January 16, 2021 at 6:17 am said:

Big thanks to Yoram and Terry for successfully bringing this to a conclusion. Also delighted to see that EbL now has 1,001 followers!

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Oliver Milne, on January 16, 2021 at 1:51 pm said:

What were the tie-breaking considerations in question?

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tbouricius, on January 16, 2021 at 4:31 pm said:

Oliver,

We never had to get to an actual tie-breaker issue because option 6 was the only choice that either defeated or tied with every other option. While option 6 and 26 were tied in a head to head themselves, option 26 was defeated in a head to head contest by option 25, so could not be a Condorcet winner. Every variant of Condorcet tabulation (with any tie-breaking method) declares #6 the winner.

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keithsutherland, on January 19, 2021 at 9:29 am said:

We’ve been promoted from page 6 to page 4 of Google searches for “sortition”; hopefully we’ll be on the front page within a few weeks.

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petercoville, on January 25, 2021 at 9:05 am said:

It’s an improvement for sure – but I still think you should revisit the main title itself!

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keithsutherland, on January 25, 2021 at 9:14 am said:

Equality by Lot equates very accurately to the full range of interest in the potential of sortition to achieve social justice and democratic equality. It also has the benefit of having been in use for over ten years. Yoram did suggest that it might be an idea to update the graphic. How about something more redolent of modern lotteries, say: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/01/04/21/Lottery.jpg?width=990&auto=webp&quality=75

or

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arturoiniguez, on January 26, 2021 at 9:17 am said:

I’d rather stick to the good ol’ kleroterion.

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Oliver Milne, on January 26, 2021 at 12:51 pm said:

I agree with Arturo – lottery balls have a very different connotation.

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keithsutherland, on February 17, 2021 at 2:13 pm said:

Does EbL really have 8,008 followers, or is my computer exaggerating (we had 1,002 yesterday)?

You are following this blog
You are following this blog, along with 8,080 other amazing people (manage).

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Oliver Milne, on February 18, 2021 at 8:59 am said:

It’s not your computer – it’s telling me the same! Either a lot of people are suddenly really into sortition, or it’s bots.

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Yoram Gat, on February 19, 2021 at 8:52 pm said:

I think I figured this out. I believe Nicholas Gruen set up sharing of his EbL posts to his Twitter account. This apparently added his 7000+ Twitter followers to the official count of EbL followers. (Those followers will only see tweets when Nicholas posts.)

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keithsutherland, on February 20, 2021 at 5:28 pm said:

Looks like we’ve been upgraded to page 3 of Google searches for sortition.

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keithsutherland, on February 25, 2021 at 8:31 am said:

And now we’re on page 2 of Google searches for sortition. I don’t know whether that’s down to the subtitle change or Nick’s fan club, but onwards and upwards.

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tbouricius, on February 25, 2021 at 3:58 pm said:

Google searches are different for each person (based on previous searches you made Google modifies what shows up in what order to each person). I did a Google search in “incognito” mode and EbL was on the first page of results six from the top.

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keithsutherland, on February 25, 2021 at 4:26 pm said:

Brilliant! Has that changed since we altered the subtitle? Yoram’ gave us a page six ranking before the name change, but don’t know if he searched incognito

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keithsutherland, on February 25, 2021 at 4:26 pm said:

PS how do you do an incognito search?

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keithsutherland, on February 25, 2021 at 4:50 pm said:

i opened an incognito window but it didn’t cahange the ranking for me

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tbouricius, on February 25, 2021 at 9:23 pm said:

hhhmmmm? mysteries of Google…. maybe somebody on here knows more than you or I do???

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