Hi Leon, --- En date de : Ven 28.1.11, Leon Smith <leon.p.sm...@gmail.com> a écrit : > There are a couple different (honest) > voter models that have commonly > been used. The two used in Warren's > Bayesian Regret simulations and > ranked Yee diagrams come to mind, of course. > > Given access to enough data of fully-ranked, it seems > to me that it > should be possible, especially with a Yee > model, to somehow > determine how well that model fits real > life. Is a 2-d euclidean > plane a with voters ranking based on distance from the > candidates a > reasonable model? How would you analyze > this?
The 2D Yee diagrams cast voters around a point without any bias in favor of one dimension or the other, as far as I know. I don't think that is likely to be realistic. I think a 1D Yee diagram would be more realistic. Or else have 2D, but the second dimension is much narrower. I don't know how to prove that some approach is realistic though. In real life we tend to see a single dimension for single-winner seats, but that could be a product of nomination disincentive produced by the particular method (or political framework) being used. It seems to me a "government vs. opposition" mindset causes voters to think in terms of a single dimension. I also don't think Yee diagrams based on sincere voting are all that compelling. Kevin Venzke ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info