What does fairness mean to New Zealanders?
Koi Tū is working in partnership with the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research (NZIER) and the New Zealand Treasury to better understand what New Zealanders think about fairness.
We invite you to participate in the conversation on this Pol.is interactive platform.
What is Pol.is?
Pol.is is an online tool that helps gather and make sense of differing perspectives and feedback from large groups of people on issues that affect them. Participants ‘vote’ on a series of statements (by indicating ‘agree’, ‘disagree’ or ‘pass’) and can add their own statements for others to vote on, furthering and enriching the conversation.
This approach combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies to identify areas of consensus and well as points of ongoing contention or disagreement.
What is this conversation about?
We want to understand how New Zealands think about fairness.
There are four questions we aim to answer:
- How do you think social and economic outcomes should be distributed across society? (the conception of fairness)
- What types of outcomes do you think are most important for fairness? (the currency of fairness)
- How do you think social and economic outcomes are currently distributed?
- To what extent do features of our society make New Zealand fair or unfair?
Answering these questions will support public sector agencies to provide advice on the distributional and equity implications of policy choices.
This project also aims to raise awareness in the general public of different perspectives on fairness and economic inequality, supporting more informed public discussion.
Join the conversation
Share your ideas and vote on the ideas of others in this interactive online conversation. Explore the conversation as it develops and check back every few days to review and vote on new ideas.
You will see a set of short statements to ‘vote’ on by clicking ‘agree’, ‘disagree’ or ‘pass’.
You can also enter your own statements for others to vote on. We encourage you to think about the conditions potentially underpinning inequality, and which of these are problematic (or not) for Aotearoa New Zealand.
How to take part
- Answer a statement by clicking Agree, Disagree or Pass/Unsure. The next statement will automatically appear.
- If you can’t bring yourself to categorically agree or disagree with a statement, the challenge is to write and submit a ‘better’ one!
- To add a statement, fill out the Share your perspective box and click submit.
- Click on Opinion Groups or the Majority Opinion button to explore areas of agreement and difference.
- Come back every few days to vote on new statements, review opinion as it is emerging and to add new statements for others to consider.
- You don’t need to ‘vote’ on all the statements at one time – Pol.is will only present you with statements you haven’t considered.
Statements and moderations
- Statements should be about a standalone idea that improves existing statements, or presents new perspectives, experiences, issues, or proposals.
- Statements can be a maximum of 140 characters, so be concise.
- Statements should not include multiple ideas, but you can submit more than one.
- Statements must be on topic, clear and should not name people, be offensive or be duplicates of other published statements.
- The moderation team will aim to accept or decline submitted statements within 72 hours.
Voters, votes and statements are anonymous
- Neither participants nor the moderators can see who has submitted a statement or how any individual has voted.
- The reports that Pol.is generates do not identify anyone.
- Participants must register and sign in to take part in the Pol.is.
- No participants will be identified in any analysis or reports.
- View our full Privacy Statement here.