Breathe
By Pamela Cerdeira
We were in the midst of the 2018 election, I had just finished a Facebook quiz that I had spent several minutes on just to find out "What pizza was it," and I was surprised at the amount of time I had spent on something so irrelevant, but the unknown about the answer was enticing enough to want to find out.
What would happen if a test could tell me, without the biases of philias and phobias, which candidate it was? Thus was the birth of Voto Ciego, a portal for people to vote for the proposals of the candidates and the candidate for president, without knowing to whom each proposal belongs. And at the end to know who got the most votes. The first time I did the exercise, 200 thousand people answered the questionnaire to the end, the second time it was for the elections of the State of Mexico and the third time in this presidential election. The exercise was carried out on the first occasion in collaboration with Gerardo Saucedo and two students from the Universidad Iberoamericana and on the second and this third occasion it has been financed with my own resources.
I will be presenting some results of the exercise between now and June 2 and this is the first installment.
