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Questions of Sincerity in Cooperative Polls

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Abstract

Online tools like Doodle polls are frequently used for meeting coordination and other decentralized cooperative decision-making. Since Doodle polls are a form of approval voting, theoretical results from voting theory often underpin work in this area. Sincerity, where a voter never says yes to a less-preferred option without saying yes to all more preferable choices, is a common assumption in approval voting. However, that does not take into account cooperative behavior sometimes exhibited by users when others’ responses are known. We conduct a user study investigating the extent to which college-student participants in Doodle-style polls were sincere, reporting on responses from one institution.

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  • Approval voting
  • Doodle polls
  • Sincerity

A Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund grant compensated study participants. Southwestern University’s High-Impact Experience Fund supported student research assistants.

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  1. Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 78626, USA

    Barbara M. Anthony, Miryam Galvez & Chris Ojonta

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M. Anthony, B., Galvez, M., Ojonta, C. (2021). Questions of Sincerity in Cooperative Polls. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12983. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88207-5_2

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