Kathy, yes the Borda winner assigns r points to the (n-r)th ranked candidate. It's a method with important problems.
Robert: yes, that was the point, a sort of Condorcet:Borda::median:mean, if you like. There is no new method or algorithm here. Kristofer: yes, it is a very simple observation. Your comments about burial are very interesting, and show how we might be able to apply analysis of (one of) Condorcet or Borda methods to the other. Your way of passing from median to mean, I'm not sure I understood completely. Is it something like this? - median - mean of central 5% - mean of central 10% - etc where "central 5%" would mean that you discard the 47.5% highest and the 47.5% lowest values (with multiplicity of course), and when these don't give whole numbers, interpolate linearly. Is this right? --- El dom, 9/1/11, election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com <election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com> escribió: De: election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com <election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com> Asunto: Election-Methods Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6 Para: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Fecha: domingo, 9 de enero, 2011 21:01 Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to election-methods@lists.electorama.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com You can reach the person managing the list at election-methods-ow...@lists.electorama.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Election-Methods digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: a Borda-Condorcet relation (Kathy Dopp) 2. Re: a Borda-Condorcet relation (robert bristow-johnson) 3. Re: a Borda-Condorcet relation (Kristofer Munsterhjelm) _______________________________________________ Election-Methods mailing list Election-Methods@lists.electorama.com http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com
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