I'm not going to try to address each and every point in your long message (or Yves's) because we are still on completely different wavelengths and I suspect it would be an exercise in frustration.Still, I think there is hope. You seem to understand why median
works in the case of voting for a numb
omax
Cc: election-methods@electorama.com
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Subject: Re: [EM] Linear Spread Median
Range Voting
On 12/20/05, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At
07:48 PM 12/20/2005, rob brown wrote:>I like this way better
At 01:45 AM 12/21/2005, rob brown wrote:
>Your vote for B lowered his score when you would have wanted to
>raise his score (had you known that it was A, and not C, that was
>his main competitor). The reason I had them differ by a small
>amount was to show the case where the election could be l
On 12/20/05, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 07:48 PM 12/20/2005, rob brown wrote:>I like this way better than "regular" range voting, as it removes a>large part of the incentive people have to vote insincerely.>>Still, a voter has to take a guess as to what vote will be most
>eff
At 07:48 PM 12/20/2005, rob brown wrote:
>I like this way better than "regular" range voting, as it removes a
>large part of the incentive people have to vote insincerely.
>
>Still, a voter has to take a guess as to what vote will be most
>effective in helping to achieve what he wants. Example:
I like this way better than "regular" range voting, as it removes a large part of the incentive people have to vote insincerely.Still, a voter has to take a guess as to what vote will be most effective in helping to achieve what he wants. Example: I vote A: 0, B: 55, C: 100.
Then the final score
The electorama wiki has a page on Median Ratings as a method.
This is basically Range Voting, but the median rating for each
candidate is determined and the candidate with the highest rating is
the winner.
There are two basic problems with Median Ratings noted on the wiki page:
(1) Due to the
