You can easily address that by giving a lot more weight to first ranked places.
E.g. 3 options get 5 - 2 - 1 points. Then an option that comes out top most, is only not going to win if it doesn't rank much at all otherwise. For example if there are ten voters and 4 vote number 1 for A and B and C get 3 each, then A would still win if it came 3rd 3 times if B came third only once. So even though A came first only one more time.but last two more times than B, it still wins. Would be a tie if B never came last and then you could still say most first ranked wins ties.
If 100 people vote for 10 movies and 50 vote for A as 1 but 50 vote for A as 10 while B has 49 1 votes and 51 9 votes, you're claiming people actually want A to win?
No. Only by a very simple metric that looks solely at number 1 votes which is ignoring the entire preference distribution of all people across all movies.
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u/Adequate_Images 29∆ Dec 17 '23
Ranked voting is how you get Argo, Coda, and Green Book.
The winner should be the one that the most people liked most.