System and method for quadratic, near-quadratic, and convex voting in various types of research and voting
AssigneeCollective Decision Engines, Inc.
InventorsE Glen Weyl, David Quarfoot, Eric Posner, Kevin Slavin
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Abstract
A method for eliciting and aggregating truthful preferences of respondents, with steps of assigning a currency budget to a respondent and generating a user interface. The user interface: displays budgets for each respondent; displays choices among alternative outcomes for each respondent and a method for allocating votes among options by paying according to a quadratic function; displays the outcome of the voting for each respondent; enables a third party to select and contact respondents; enables the third party to observe voting choices and final voting outcomes; and enables the third party to control budgets and voting options.
Claims10
A system for eliciting and aggregating the truthful preferences of a group of respondents, comprising:
- a server computer comprising a memory, a processor, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, the plurality of programming instructions comprising at least a quadratic voting software component configured to:
- provide an administrative user interface for assigning a budget of artificial or real currency to a first respondent of the group of respondents;
- provide a respondent user interface that:
- displays a set of choices among alternative outcomes for the first respondent and a method for allocating votes among the choices by paying with the budget according to a quadratic function;
- and
- displays an outcome of the voting for the first respondent;
- enable a third party to select a subset of the plurality of respondents and to contact the subset of respondents by email or text message with a link to a web page;
- enable the third party to observe voting choices made by respondents and final voting outcomes;
- and
- enable the third party to act via the administrative user interface.
A method for eliciting and aggregating the truthful preferences of a group of respondents, the method comprising the steps of:
- assigning, using a quadratic voting software component comprising programming instructions stored in a memory of, and operating on a processor of, a server computer comprising a memory and a processor, a budget of artificial or real currency to a respondent of the group of respondents;
- and
- providing, using the quadratic voting software component, an administrative user interface for assigning a budget of artificial or real currency to a first respondent of the group of respondents;
- providing, using the quadratic voting software component, a respondent user interface that:
- displays a set of choices among alternative outcomes for the first respondent and a method for allocating votes among the choices by paying with the budget according to a quadratic function;
- and
- displays an outcome of the voting for the first respondent;
- enabling, using the quadratic voting software component, a third party to select a subset of the plurality of respondents and to contact the subset of respondents by email or text message with a link to a web page;
- enabling, using the quadratic voting software component, the third party to observe voting choices made by respondents and final voting outcomes;
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- enabling, using the quadratic voting software component, the third party to act via the administrative user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.