More Election Simulation

[bolson]

Imagine political opinion space is a plane. Ok, lots of people measure like liberal-conservative on social and fiscal scales, but really any axes will do. Now position some candidates on that plane. Now simulate an election with the the center of a gaussian distribution of voters at the center of pixels on that plane voting for the closest candidates. This is a great way to visualize the behavior of election methods.

lots of pictures here
credit due to the original here, but my pictures are bigger. :-)

Comments

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

Wow. These make my head hurt at the end of the day. :)