Re: MEP positions (Was: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Swpat directive passed by 7 votes.)

[James Heald]

Tom Chance wrote:

> On Friday 21 May 2004 11:51, James Heald wrote:
>
> > Tom Chance wrote:
> >
> > > We'd aim to do something far more readable too. The FFII one isn't
> > > exactly easy to read. Friends of the Earth have an excellent example of
> > > what we could do:
> > >
> > > http://www.foeeurope.org/euvotewatch/
> >
> > FoE's maths is bizarre though -- they count a 'no show' as equivalent to
> >  a full vote against.
>
>
> They do? I see two symbols: "unfriendly" and "did not vote". 

Two different symbols, but they count them both the same way when it 
comes to ranking the parties (or they did when I last looked, a week ago).

> Anyway, we can do 
> the maths better, but the presentation is the important thing. It's obvious 
> and accessible, unlike the current FFII tables. Something like this:
>
> http://www.tomchance.org.uk/tmp
>
> We should be making every effort to reduce barriers to the data, even for 
> geeks who are at home with statistics.

Agreed.