Simulated Election

[got tonkaed]

indeed i wouldnt really stand a chance of beating anyone except for maybe napoleon.

At least it wasn't a landslide. Also, running it again gave you one more vote, if that's any consolation.

eek. i cant even win a recount.

[Russianfire8371]

Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

[InkL0sed]

Enter name of first candidate: jecko7

Enter name of second candidate: Russianfire8371

Enter social standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)0

Enter economic standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)6

Enter social standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-5

Enter economic standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-3
jecko7 (6.0, 0.0): 9 votes
Russianfire8371 (-3.0, -5.0): 10 votes

[jecko7]

This vote is complete crap! I demand a recount!

Can't you just change the variables for social standing into doubles and then multiply the votes by 1000 or something to get whole numbers for them? Or is my limited knowledge of java way off?

[hecter]

This vote is complete crap! I demand a recount!

Can't you just change the variables for social standing into doubles and then multiply the votes by 1000 or something to get whole numbers for them? Or is my limited knowledge of java way off?

It's my understanding of programming that if you try to give an integer variable a noninteger input it will either bug out then and there or will just ignore the decimals.

[InkL0sed]

I could actually easily make them doubles:

public void setCors(int t, int k){
soc = (double)t;
econ = (double)k;
}

I just made the input integers cause I wasn't sure it would accept it if I entered 1 instead of 1.0. I should go change that...

[JDodge]

What sort of calculations does this use, anyways? Is it something that could be done by hand?

[InkL0sed]

Just the distance formula.

d = (x^2 + y^2)^(1/2)

public double calcDiff(Politician p){
double d = 0.0;
double x = Math.abs(p.getEcon() - getEcon());
double y = Math.abs(p.getSoc() - getSoc());
d = Math.abs(Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y));
return d;
}

So yes, you could do this by hand.

[jecko7]

I'm interested in the formula for the votes from the economic/social scores as well. Are you taking actual statistics (e.g. opinion polls), or did you just make up a formula?

Either way, this is a pretty cool idea.

EDIT - beat me to it

[InkL0sed]

I'm interested in the formula for the votes from the economic/social scores as well. Are you taking actual statistics (e.g. opinion polls), or did you just make up a formula?

Either way, this is a pretty cool idea.

EDIT - beat me to it

I may as well explain how everything works, since I'm getting so many questions

There are three classes: Election, Politician, and Voter. The Election just runs everything, it isn't very important.

Both Voters and Politicians have political coordinates. The Voter's coordinates are random. The Voter simply finds the Politician which has closer coordinates, and adds +1 to the votes variable in Politician.

public double calcDiff(Politician p){
double d = 0.0;
double x = Math.abs(p.getEcon() - getEcon());
double y = Math.abs(p.getSoc() - getSoc());
d = Math.abs(Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y));
return d;
}

public void Decide(Politician one, Politician two){
if(calcDiff(one) > calcDiff(two)){
two.votes++;
}
else if(calcDiff(one) < calcDiff(two)){
one.votes++;
}
else{}
}

I hope that answers everything

EDIT: Didn't see your edit

[Hanul]

http://politicalcompass.org/test
Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

[InkL0sed]

I changed the code while playing around with it, and now it doesn't work

When I fix it I'll run you against whoever it was that won last time (can't remember if that was jecko or Russianfire

[unriggable]

[InkL0sed]

Thank you, finally someone with information!

[Napoleon Ier]

indeed i wouldnt really stand a chance of beating anyone except for maybe napoleon.

lets run it;

Right by 8 pts ( +8 )

Libertarian by only 1 ( -1 )

[InkL0sed]

Mike Gravel: 7
Dennis Kucinich: 12

Dennis Kucinich: 11
John Edwards: 8

Dennis Kucinich: 14
Joe Biden: 5

Dennis Kucinich: 13
Barack Obama: 6

Dennis Kucinich: 9
Hillary Clinton: 10

More to come later.

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That's all I have to express. I did each one at least twice, and I got more or less the same results each time. Hillary beat Kucinich by 1 vote twice! By the time I was running that one, I was expecting Kucinich to beat her almost as badly as Obama.

[muy_thaiguy]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.31

[MeDeFe]

Mike Gravel: 7
Dennis Kucinich: 12

Dennis Kucinich: 11
John Edwards: 8

Dennis Kucinich: 14
Joe Biden: 5

Dennis Kucinich: 13
Barack Obama: 6

Dennis Kucinich: 9
Hillary Clinton: 10

More to come later.

–––



That's all I have to express. I did each one at least twice, and I got more or less the same results each time. Hillary beat Kucinich by 1 vote twice! By the time I was running that one, I was expecting Kucinich to beat her almost as badly as Obama.

If you'd run them all at once Gravel and Kucinich would probably stand the best chances, simply because there's less competition for votes in that area of the field, RP might also stand a chance, he's not quite a part of the big field.

And for the record, my results from this test.
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00


Slightly more to the economic left than the last time, but still as libertarian as ever. Too bad they don't phrase all questions very clearly, there's a lot of wiggle room in some of them.

[Napoleon Ier]

Frankly I think that test is entirely idiotic. It's pseudo-revolutionnary and overly simplistic as a politicometric tool. You can't transpose something as complex as a political spectrum onto their appalling criteria ("more liberty" is associated with libertarianism, but that is dissociated from economic policy) and what's more their awfully worded questions. "Do you think astrology accurately predicts things?" If you do, there should frankly be an extra besotted little urbanite teenage girl dimension.

[InkL0sed]

Enter name of first candidate: got tonkaed

Enter name of second candidate: Napoleon

Enter social standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-8

Enter economic standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-6

Enter social standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-1

Enter economic standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)8
got tonkaed(-6.0, -8.0): 8
Napoleon(8.0, -1.0): 11

[InkL0sed]

Gosh you guys are all so left wing

Enter name of first candidate: Russianfire

Enter name of second candidate: Hanul

Enter social standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-5.18

Enter economic standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-3.0

Enter social standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-4.51

Enter economic standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-2.75
Russianfire(-3.0, -5.18 ): 6
Hanul(-2.75, -4.51): 13

Enter name of first candidate: Hanul

Enter name of second candidate: muy thaiguy

Enter social standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-4.51

Enter economic standing of first candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)-2.75

Enter social standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)4.31

Enter economic standing of second candidate(on a scale of -10 to 10)7.25
Hanul(-2.75, -4.51): 10
muy thaiguy(7.25, 4.31): 9

[Napoleon Ier]

Whadja have to say to that now tonky my son?

[InkL0sed]

:shock: Whadja have to say to that now tonky my son?

You're actually relatively moderate compared to him

[unriggable]

FYI I was somewhere in the -6, -2 area. I really don't want to take it again.

[got tonkaed]

i cant believe i cant beat napoelon in an election.