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Ok, so the emphasis on odd numbers makes this seem like a some sort of mathematical puzzle/riddle that has an actual right and wrong answer.

 

But funk it, I can't be arsed with that wankshite.

 

They should pick the cheapest item on the menu and order 3 (or 5) of that. This is the best ordering method since it saves the most money.

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Oooooh game theory.

 

Well, the first priority should be to figure out what each person absolutely doesn't want. This means that, although not everyone will have the thing they want most, nobody will be particularly upset about the result.

 

Next, each person would list the items remaining in order of most preferred to least. The seven lists would all be compared, finding the dish that they most like as a whole, and nobody is vehemently against.

 

Then you just get three of said dish, two of it and one of second place, one of each from the top three, etc. The group would decide which of these options they like most, and meal composition is determined largely by type of food anyway.

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Ok, so the emphasis on odd numbers makes this seem like a some sort of mathematical puzzle/riddle that has an actual right and wrong answer.

 

But funk it, I can't be arsed with that wankshite.

 

They should pick the cheapest item on the menu and order 3 (or 5) of that. This is the best ordering method since it saves the most money.

We could do it with even numbers, it doesn't really matter. I just picked odd numbers because it makes thinking about the problem a little easier.

Oooooh game theory.

 

Well, the first priority should be to figure out what each person absolutely doesn't want. This means that, although not everyone will have the thing they want most, nobody will be particularly upset about the result.

 

Next, each person would list the items remaining in order of most preferred to least. The seven lists would all be compared, finding the dish that they most like as a whole, and nobody is vehemently against.

 

Then you just get three of said dish, two of it and one of second place, one of each from the top three, etc. The group would decide which of these options they like most, and meal composition is determined largely by type of food anyway.

What if there's a tie, or close to it, for one or more dishes?

 

Let's say we ask the whole group, and it prefers Orange Chicken over Kung-Pao Chicken. But, it prefers Teriyaki Beef over Kung-Pao Chicken. And, yet still, it prefers Orange Chicken over Teriyaki Beef.

 

We can use more dishes in the A>B>C>A cycle (A>B>C>D>E>F>G>A) if it makes it easier to think about.

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I want to make it easy to think about this problem, so let me set some potential goals / criteria for ordering:

 

  • Money doesn't matter. Or, if it does, people take it into consideration when deciding which dishes they prefer. Some people are willing to pay more for some dishes, but not others (which is another way of saying it doesn't matter).
  • You want to satisfy everyone's preferences - if there are dishes that, when compared with every other option, are preferred by more people, you want to get those. So, a dish that would win in a one-on-one vote against every other dish is a dish you want to order. Let's call this dish the Crowd Winner (CW).
  • There might not be one or more CWs, there might be none.
  • If there is no CW, you still want to satisfy as many people's preferences as possible.
  • We're imagining this is like real life, so you don't want to order a dish that one person will hate just to please the others. If someone is vegan, you don't want to have every dish have meat. You can imagine the same thing with someone who just hates shrimp, or soy, or whatever. The point is that some people have strong preferences. Does that matter?

 

All of this is to say that the exercise is basically the same as it would be if you did it in real life.

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I don't know.  It's just something I've done since high school, and found it reasonably successful.  I don't know that it's better than other methods, because when I go out, if niggas can't pick, I pick for em.  Ain't got time for experimenting and all that bullshit.  jabroni I wanna eat.  funk you mean.

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I don't know.  It's just something I've done since high school, and found it reasonably successful.  I don't know that it's better than other methods, because when I go out, if niggas can't pick, I pick for em.  Ain't got time for experimenting and all that bullshit.  jabroni I wanna eat.  funk you mean.

It's a game, bruh. No need to get all angry n sheet.

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It's a game, bruh. No need to get all angry n s***.

He's not angry. That's just part of Dad's parlance

 

 

  • We're imagining this is like real life, so you don't want to order a dish that one person will hate just to please the others. If someone is vegan, you don't want to have every dish have meat. You can imagine the same thing with someone who just hates shrimp, or soy, or whatever. The point is that some people have strong preferences. Does that matter?

In that case, there might be no solution. 1 person might be vegan and also have crohn's disease (and be on a low fibre diet as treatment for that) and there might not be anything on the menu for them since lots of vegan food is just lettuce (which is rather high in fibre). You can't always please everyone. This rule is stupid.

 

By the way, the low fibre vegan is me. I can't eat out because of it since I can never trust someone to make food low fibre since so many chefs put onion in things without thinking twice.

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He's not angry. That's just part of Dad's parlance

 

 

In that case, there might be no solution. 1 person might be vegan and also have crohn's disease (and be on a low fibre diet as treatment for that) and there might not be anything on the menu for them since lots of vegan food is just lettuce (which is rather high in fibre). You can't always please everyone. This rule is stupid.

 

By the way, the low fibre vegan is me. I can't eat out because of it since I can never trust someone to make food low fibre since so many chefs put onion in things without thinking twice.

I never said you had to have unanimity. Part of the problem is, okay, this voting system works when people are fairly similar. But does it account for the different people, and does that matter?

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