User:Lucasvb/An upgrade to the spatial model of voters: Difference between revisions

This notion of "direction" is well-modeled mathematically by the notion of an "angle" in this space. This, in turn, mathematically requires a notion of inner products, which requires the Euclidean metric.

 

 

One major benefit of this approach is that we now have a direct way to embed importance into our model of voters.

With the Euclidean distance, and how we embedded the different priorities voters have on multiple issues in our model, we now have a unified model which can naturally deal with voters having strong ideals, degrees of compromising, etc. We could even model the dynamics of voters by using the notion of "effort to move around opinion units".

 

 

== Implementation ==