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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did strategy become akin to Satan worship?  Ooooh, no, can't do that, it'll lead to gaming.  [i]Shudder[/i].  Oh, how terrible!  Wake up people.  The whole charter system is gaming.  We're gaming people who don't have the ability, education, or access to research or apply to charter schools.

A variation on the system proposed by the OP that assigns a weight to one's ranking of 12 schools (in addition to the random lottery number) would be quite workable, and would provide better, fairer outcomes, earlier in the process.[/quote]

The problem with strategic ranking is that overall, it leads to sub-optimal outcomes. As soon as people start ranking in less-than-true-preference order, and assignments are done based on that ranking, there is a net loss of utility.[/quote]

This pp must be an economist or other. They are correct. People should read up on this system and the reasoning behind it before they get so critical. No system will give everyone what they want, as we already know when supply is less than demand.[/quote]

Other. Minored in Ec at Harvard.[/quote]

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