Computer science

Some thoughts on online voting

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:14. March 2014
Post category:Political science Politics Politics

I was asked to comment on this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/s1t2c/netsec_how_would_you_design_an_electronic_voting/ This post is written with the assumption that a bitcoin-like system is used. Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy…

Mining data from OKCupid: using OKC’s questions as an IQ-test

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. September 2012
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Psychology
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Is it possible? Yes. In the exact same way that one normally makes an IQ-test, one can do so with OKC. Handpick a lot of questions that have to do…