Up to Vote
Fair Division
In the House
A Word About Graphs
Prob. & Stats Grab Bag
100

How a voter records their preferences, usually on paper

What is a ballot?

100

A good that cannot be divided while still being useful

What is a discrete good?

100

In this House, we use apportionment to distribute seats

What is the House of Representatives?

100

"Dots" on a graph

What are vertices?

100

This study has a hypothesis, treatments, and tries to see if one thing causes another

What is an experiment?

200

When a candidate gets over 50% of all first-choice votes

What is a majority?

200

1/N of the total value of the goods, where N is the number of players

What is a fair share?

200

Our third President created this apportionment method

What is Jefferson's method?

200

A graph where you can get to a vertex from any other vertex

What is connected?

200
This function is also known as the "bell curve"

What is the normal distribution?

300

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?

300

In this fair division method, players assign values to discrete goods and sometimes give money to a surplus

What is the sealed bids method?

300

In this apportionment method, we use the geometric mean.

What is the Huntington-Hill method?

300
If you can follow the edges from one vertex to another without repeating, you've found this

What is a path?

300
Data points that are very, very far from the center

What are outliers?

400

This candidate is preferred more than other candidates in head-to-head matchups

What is a Condorcet winner?

400

In this fair division method, every player takes turns diminishing a share or passing

What is the last diminisher method?

400

In this apportionment method, we always round the quota to the nearest whole number

What is Webster's method?

400

It always starts and ends at the same vertex

What is a circuit?

400
Events that cannot happen at the same time

What are mutually exclusive events?

500

Just because you have a majority of first-choice votes doesn't mean you'll win this voting method

What is a Borda count?

500

In a lone divider game, every share will be fair to this player

Who is the lone divider?

500

In Hamilton's method, we give 1 leftover seat to a state with this

What is the largest decimal part of their quota?

500

For a graph with three vertices to be connected, it must have at least this many edges

What is 2?

500

A measure of how far data is from the mean, often expressed using σ 

What is standard deviation?