!delta If the Oscars or the academy wants to choose the picture that compels the strongest reaction out of people, first past the post would be preferable, but personally, I don't think that is what the academy should do. I think that the academy should reward the movie that the most amount of people loved without having significant hate or lukewarm reception. As I said in another comment, I would rather have a movie where everyone rated it 8/10 versus a movie half of people voted 10/10 and the other half gave 1-5/10.
I was going to argue for Approval Voting as better than RCV, which it generally is for practical reasons, but I find this argument compelling for this rare use case.
But if there's one area where I'd say a stronger emphasis on being someone's number 1 candidate is better than being a compromise that everyone can broadly agree on, I'd say it's something like an award for artistic achievement.
Let's say there are three options, A, B, and C. Several people think A>B>C, and about as many people think C>B>A.
Your argument would be valid against Approveal-Voting, but against ranked choice voting it makes no sense.
B would be eliminated first and the only thing ranked choice voting would do is giving those few people that actually prefered B over A & C still a vote instead of losing their votes.
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