Brian, --- Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I don't think that range voting should be used for this scenario. Why > > not? > > Because it is not a majority rule system. It is possible for a > > candidate > > to win in range voting even if they are the last choice of 99% of the > > voters. Unlikely, but mathematically true. > > Since you are talking about an election method that indeed should not > be used, who here has proposed using such a method? I expect that the > method you are striking down is subtly but crucially different than > anything anyone was actually promoting. > > So, the example in that last paragraph looks something like this, right? > 99* 1.0, 0.0 > 1* 0.0, 100000000.0 > > But I don't remember any suggestions that we have such unbounded > ballots and straight rating summation.
Why do you think James Green-Armytage was talking about unbounded ballots? > Early in his > often cited book, Kenneth Arrow asserted that you can't measure > interpersonal utility. That's why he focused on orderings, personal and > social. > I disagree and say that we implicitly do measure interpersonal > utility by giving everyone "one vote" and thus we give everyone equal > utility and an equal share of the social utility. I still think your disagreement is silly, primarily because I don't understand how "giving everyone one vote" shows that we implicitly measure interpersonal utility. And even if I did understand that, I still think it's silly, since just because we "implicitly do" measure interpersonal utility doesn't mean we really *can* measure it, which would require that all voters are sincere and use exactly the same rating scale. Ballots would have to read minds. > To that end "cumulative" and "normalized" forms of ratings exist. And how did you get here? Why would anyone advocate the cumulative vote for a single-winner election? IRNR is your method, so I would think it would be obvious to you that the normalization is rubbish without the eliminations. Kevin Venzke Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info