A Study of Human Behavior in Online Voting

M. Tal, R. Meir, Y. Gal

Election type Ordinal
Culture not-ordinal
Candidates {3}
Voters {3, 5, 7}
numbers selected not to even and small to maximize the number of converged experiments (it is about reaching a stable outcome in iterative voting)
Instances None
940 ballots cast (note that this is an iterative voting game, each with unspecified number of rounds but at most 10)
Parameters None
Notes Experiment conducted via Mechanical Turk, where voters were submitting Plurality ballots based on the profile they had assigned. Each voter aim was to have the most preferred candidate win. The voters could change their votes in response to changes of votes from the other agents.