Altruism, Noise, and the Paradox of Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study

Table 6

(a) Voting turnout rates (all rounds). (b) Voting turnout rates (rounds 11–20). (c) Voting turnout rates (rounds 1–10).

(a)

	All treatments	Symmetric	Asymmetric	12	18
Type 1 for Candidate	0.4911	0.5467	0.4356	0.4500	0.5185
Type 1 for Candidate	0.0639	0.0656	0.0622	0.0597	0.0667
Type 2 for Candidate	0.0544	0.0733	0.0356	0.0653	0.0472
Type 2 for Candidate	0.5250	0.5533	0.4967	0.5417	0.5139

(b)

	All treatments	Symmetric	Asymmetric	12	18
Type 1 for Candidate	0.4622	0.5022	0.4222	0.3972	0.5056
Type 1 for Candidate	0.0344	0.0533	0.0156	0.0167	0.0463
Type 2 for Candidate	0.0211	0.0200	0.0222	0.0222	0.0204
Type 2 for Candidate	0.4911	0.5533	0.4289	0.5250	0.4685

(c)

	All treatments	Symmetric	Asymmetric	12	18
Type 1 for Candidate	0.5200	0.5911	0.4489	0.5028	0.5315
Type 1 for Candidate	0.0933	0.0778	0.1089	0.1028	0.0870
Type 2 for Candidate	0.0878	0.1267	0.0489	0.1083	0.0741
Type 2 for Candidate	0.5589	0.5533	0.5644	0.5583	0.5593