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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Thinking more about this, what would I do?
In real life: there is usually one main decision maker, and a following chain of command. The decision maker will unilaterally make his decision of who goes 1st, then while that person is being rescued, I would probably designate people I unilaterally consider to be in pool "priority" and pool "next round" ... using this divide and conquor method, I've narrowed down the next choice (or if I'm completely 50/50 split, pick the choice with higher social leverage)... keep doing this each round.
In a group of 4 decision makers: after a quick scan, seeing the social exercise of this and knowing its decision making, and knowing I have the flex time of 20 min and nothing will be done in 20 min, I would divide the list in 2 (each side gets 3 members), I would try and socially divide up the teams based on gender/age (if possible), then between 2 people, you make your top choice and bottom choice. Each side gets 5 min. Then when the 2 sides re-convine and do their draft, you will see both members of each sides party "dig their heels in" ... you will probably see an interesting behavior in which one side may get their choice in "1st pick overall? in return for the other side getting "3rd and 5th" vs "4th and 6th" ... basically now you have 2 rounds of 2 decision makers per party, rather then 1 round of 4 decision makers (aka. anarchy)
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Why do these people even get to vote and squabble on who lives or dies leading to this mess where you waste 20 minutes trying to figure out who's in charge of this pathetic rescue team?
Somebody take charge and say "we're going to rescue these people in an order that guarantees the highest numbers of survivors" with adjustment based on the willingness of the people to be rescued. They need to have a choice in this also. If anything, they are the ones who should be voting. Not you.
To really fix this experiment and make it interesting (or a made for TV movie), the participants should be the "victims" and they should be trying to figure out who goes first...The participants shouldn't be the rescuers.