A Study of Human Behavior in Online Voting

M. Tal, R. Meir, Y. Gal

Election type Ordinal
Culture Real-Life (beyond PrefLib)
Candidates {3}
Voters {103, 1009, 10007}
numbers selected to avoid rounding issues
Instances 2379
722, 966, 691 respectively
Parameters None
Notes Experiment conducted via Mechanical Turk, where voters were submitting Plurality ballots once, given the poll results designed by the observers.
Motivation analysis of how humans vote online (so basically just humans voting strategically with preferences over objects)