UW News
Michael Johnson
October 26, 2022
New study shows how voting methods affect group decision-making
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Michael Johnson, professor of management in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, found in a new study that groups that used “multivoting” in unofficial votes were 50% more likely to identify the correct option than those that used plurality or ranked-choice voting.