I guess some people are posting their votes on the list. I said yes, no, yes. It's merely my opinion that C is "socially preferable" to A and B.
But with #2: > 2. Is tossing a coin to decide between A and B socially preferable to A? If there are future elections, then you could argue that the coin flip is preferable to A or B on the same reasoning that C might be: Utility will average out to 50/50. I.e. this kind of "fairness" is not a distinct thing from utility. But if you don't say there will be future elections, if it's just this one election, I can't see on what argument the coin flip is socially preferable to an arbitrary A win. One can't assume that the voters will be happier with a random selection over an arbitrary one; if that's true it needs to be specified explicitly, and that makes the question rather uninteresting. Kevin Venzke ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info