Abstract: A method for eliciting and aggregating truthful preferences of respondents, with steps of assigning a currency budget to a respondent and generating a user interface. The user interface: displays budgets for each respondent; displays choices among alternative outcomes for each respondent and a method for allocating votes among options by paying according to a quadratic function; displays the outcome of the voting for each respondent; enables a third party to select and contact respondents; enables the third party to observe voting choices and final voting outcomes; and enables the third party to control budgets and voting options.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2016
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
Collective Decision Engines, Inc.
Inventors:
E Glen Weyl, David Quarfoot, Eric Posner, Kevin Slavin