Assertion: vote | /r/HasProperty | decisive
Facets:
value: as 1/n
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In a political election that opinion polls suggest will be very close, the chance your vote is decisive is about 13/N, where N is the number of votes.
text: In a club election where there seems to be no clear favorite, the chance your vote is decisive is about 3/N, where N is the number of votes.
text: Interpreting that crudely as "a prior distribution for proportion favoring candidate A is uniform on [a,b]" gives a probability your vote is decisive as 1/N
text: Analysts who consider this issue often compare the chances of a vote making a difference in a national election to the odds of dying while driving on Election Day: it is more likely that you will die in a fatal accident than that your vote will be decisive.