On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:33:11 +1030, Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Suter wrote (Wed.Dec.15): > > them? CB: Range Voting is fine if all one cares about is "minimizing > Bayesian regret" (Warren D. Smith, one of the paper's > authors) or meeting the "Favourite Betrayal Criterion" (i.e. never > having a strategic incentive to Compromise). > To cheerfully assert, as W.D. Smith does, that "minimizing Bayesian > regret" trumps majority rule is tantamount to saying > that more emotional voters should have more power than less emotional > voters, which in my view is nonsensical and unfair. ... > Chris Benham > What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of Bayesian regret by range voting with the emotional states of voters?
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