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I want to test out how a ranked choice poll would work in the real world so I wanna make a ranked-choice poll, what questions would be good to ask here? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What questions would work great for a ranked-choice poll?

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[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My go-to is always ice cream flavors. Simple enough for people to quickly make decisions, but also highly subjective.

Most other comments so far are misleading. You shouldn't do "favorite" or "best" in forced ranking. It needs to be something that's on a continuum and is subjective. Typically, you say "rank features in order of importance," not "most important feature," or "rank from most delicious to least delicious" rather than "favorite ice cream flavor."

"Favorite" is a single data point, not a continuum. And it's not subjective, since others don't get an opinion on what someone else's favorite is.