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Cooperative Scoring

Within a healthy community, especially with a family, there is sufficient give and take that cooperating scoring is a more natural alternative to competitive scoring. Individuals behave altruistically to those for whom they have sufficient sympathy; they are willingly suffer a small loss so that those close to them can enjoy a large gain.

The blue lines in the diagram above are 90 degrees rotated from the contours of equal cash transfer in the standard, competitive scoring system. Although a radical alternative to traditional economic scoring systems, the scoring system above still flawed; since it does not measuring value imbalance (which competitive scoring does), it is unsuitable for scoring interactions between people without a high degree of sympathy for one another. No single dimension of value can capture both people's feelings about a transaction - which is why multi-dimensional scoring is superior.

Download a presentation on this topic given by Robin Upton on 2004-12-06.
This is an updated version of the one given at the European Social Forum,   2004-10-16.
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