Up to Vote
How a voter records their preferences, usually on paper
What is a ballot?
A good that cannot be divided while still being useful
What is a discrete good?
In this House, we use apportionment to distribute seats
What is the House of Representatives?
"Dots" on a graph
What are vertices?
This study has a hypothesis, treatments, and tries to see if one thing causes another
What is an experiment?
When a candidate gets over 50% of all first-choice votes
What is a majority?
1/N of the total value of the goods, where N is the number of players
What is a fair share?
Our third President created this apportionment method
What is Jefferson's method?
A graph where you can get to a vertex from any other vertex
What is connected?
What is the normal distribution?
In this voting method, all candidates except the two most popular are eliminated. Then, we see which one is most preferred
What is runoff voting?
In this fair division method, players assign values to discrete goods and sometimes give money to a surplus
What is the sealed bids method?
In this apportionment method, we use the geometric mean.
What is the Huntington-Hill method?
What is a path?
What are outliers?
This candidate is preferred more than other candidates in head-to-head matchups
What is a Condorcet winner?
In this fair division method, every player takes turns diminishing a share or passing
What is the last diminisher method?
In this apportionment method, we always round the quota to the nearest whole number
What is Webster's method?
It always starts and ends at the same vertex
What is a circuit?
What are mutually exclusive events?
Just because you have a majority of first-choice votes doesn't mean you'll win this voting method
What is a Borda count?
In a lone divider game, every share will be fair to this player
Who is the lone divider?
In Hamilton's method, we give 1 leftover seat to a state with this
What is the largest decimal part of their quota?
For a graph with three vertices to be connected, it must have at least this many edges
What is 2?
A measure of how far data is from the mean, often expressed using σ
What is standard deviation?