Kevin, you wrote: >RAV is more likely to agree with WV here than Margins. That's why I don't >mind it much.
How do you come to this conclusion? you wrote: > >I would also like to hear again the benefit *inherent* to combining >ordinal >and cardinal information. It seems to me that you, Jobst, and James all >have >different purposes in doing this. > My main purpose in using cardinal information is to incorporate preference strength into defeat strength, and thus to protect defeats that consist of many strong preferences. Using cardinal information in addition to ordinal information also tends to allow voters to engage in effective counterstrategy without altering their rankings, which generally leads to greater stability in strategy/counterstrategy scenarios. (This second reason is shared by methods like AERLO/ATLO, S/WPO, etc.) my best, James ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info