{"id":1683,"date":"2008-02-23T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2008-02-23T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:14:30","slug":"mathematics-awareness-month-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics Awareness Month 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American mathematical society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announced that the theme for Mathematics Awareness Month 2008 is Math and Voting. Among others the AMS has on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/news\/home-news.html#newsweek\">news website also a link to a newsweek article by Sharon Begley<\/a> and to the mathawareness campaign itself, which includes a very easy to understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/mathandvoting\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Main\">demonstration<\/a> on how different voting systems lead to different results. In particular the difference between a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=696\">pure ranking system<\/a> and a system, where one assignes weights\/values to the choice like in method 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Approval_voting\">(approval voting)<\/a> or method 3 as a special case of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IRV\">Instant-runoff voting<\/a> is displayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American mathematical society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announced that the theme for Mathematics Awareness Month 2008 is Math and Voting. Among others the AMS has on their news website also a link to a newsweek article by Sharon Begley and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}