Re: POLL RESULTS: What is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?

      
  

 This is totally nitpicking, but it’s often better to use Fibonacci weighted ranked voting, rather than a Borda count, to magnify the difference between top competitors in a multi-voted election.
  

  
  
  

  

  

    
  
  
  
  
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> On Mar 4, 2023 at 10:06 AM,  <Harrison (mailto:harrison@spokeo.com)>  wrote:
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> This is fun.    Thanks, Manu, for putting this together and sharing the results!    Now I know that I think similarly to most people in the community :)     
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> Sincerely,
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> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 7:22 AM Manu Sporny  <msporny@digitalbazaar.com (mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com)>  wrote:
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> >  On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 5:01 PM Manu Sporny wrote:
> >   >  We are going to close this poll at the end of this week (12pm midnight
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> >  Alright, you nerds (I say that in the most positive and loving way
> >  possible)... 90 of you registered your opinion on the question: "What
> >  is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?".
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> >  That's a huge voter turn out to determine the selection of a single
> >  word... you can't say this community doesn't care about terminology.
> >  :P
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> >  Here are the results (screenshot attached):
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> >   https://www.opavote.com/results/6203261324361728
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> >  The anonymized ballots are all viewable at the link above as well.
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> >  What is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?
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> >  There are 12 candidates competing for 1 seat. The number of voters is 91 and
> >  there were 90 valid votes and 1 empty votes. Counting votes using Borda Count.
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> >  Candidate | Count
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> >         create |       551
> >          issue |       227
> >             sign |       169
> >      prepare |       385
> >      present |       273
> >     assemble |       385
> >          prove |       115
> >         derive |       205
> >      produce |       446
> >     generate |       507
> >         render |       143
> >      compose |       552
> >  Exhausted |    1982
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> >  Borda count totals.
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> >  While the "winner" is the word "compose"... as in, you /compose/ a
> >  Verifiable Presentation, and then you /present/ it... compose "won" by
> >  a margin of a single Borda Count point, which is statistically
> >  insignificant given the population and number of people voting.
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> >  The top 4 choices were (in order): compose, create, generate, and produce
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> >  The next steps are to put the poll results in front of the VCWG for
> >  determining the rationale of what goes in the specification and why,
> >  driven by the data we were able to gather in the poll.
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> >  Thank you to everyone that participated in the poll, it really helps
> >  to use data-based approaches among an expert community when
> >  determining terminology!
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> >  -- manu
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> >  Manu Sporny -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> >  Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> >  News: Digital Bazaar Announces New Case Studies (2021)
> >   https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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