Books-sold Algorithm

The book algorithm gives a weight to the ideas that they support or appose, according to the number of books that are sold multiplied by the percentage of people who have read the book, that agree that that books actually supports the idea. For instance if you submit "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a reason to agree that Racism is wrong. Then that book will support that belief proportionally to the number of people who have read that book (the strength of the book) multiplied by the percentage of people who have read that book, that agree that it supports the thesis, namely that racism is wrong. This second step will keep people from submitting popular books, that don't actually support the thesis.

People would be able to submit books that they think are important to read to make an educated decision about a certain topic. For instance "The communist manifesto" by Carl Marx and "Atlas Shrugged" by Ian Rand may be considered to be the most important books to read regarding weather or not we should raise taxes. Those that had read those books, should have more say on this idea than those who have not, because this website decided that those books are very important to understand to make a decision about this issue. But the algorithm could go deeper. We are only just beginning to enter the rabbit hole. We could let people who have read these books submit essays on them (like book reports in school). The people with a higher "grade" on their essays would get more say in those issues that people have said that those books are important.

The New York Times Best Seller list, or Amazon.com sails records could be accessed by the algorithm. Statisticians will have to argue over weather it should be sales of books per year, or total books sold, or what. But even better than this, would be to allow each user to make this decision. As you tweaked it to you likes, of course different ideas would thrive. This is so cool!

Reasons to agree and disagree Algorithm

Looking at the following table, we could create a system where each reason posted to (b), (d), and (g) would give more points to idea (a). And each idea posted in position (c), (f) and (e). Would take away points from idea (a).