Re: [EM] RE : RE : Comments on the Yee/Bolson/et.al. pictures

2006-12-23 Thread raphfrk
Another thing that might be interesting would be a different voter distributions. For example, the population might be split into 2 opposing factions. I am not sure how that would be representabile on the graph. Maybe the voter always votes for his own faction even if another candidate

Re: [EM] RE : RE : Comments on the Yee/Bolson/et.al. pictures

2006-12-22 Thread Brian Olson
In the outlying areas of two or more color fuzz the mixed colors are effectively getting tied all the time and a random winner among the tied winners chosen, thus random fuzz. These areas usually occur when the center of the population is more than one standard deviation away from all of the

[EM] RE : RE : Comments on the Yee/Bolson/et.al. pictures

2006-12-22 Thread Warren Smith
The (now with random tiebreaking) Bolson pictures pretty interesting. Approval with mean-as-threshold (at least with Bolson's utility function) is doing some pretty weird stuff! But "approval with poll" looks very well behaved, at least in these examples (although I do not think it'll be that nice

[EM] RE : RE : Comments on the Yee/Bolson/et.al. pictures

2006-12-22 Thread Kevin Venzke
Warren, --- Warren Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Approval with mean-as-threshold seemed to "look bad" in the sense that > it could prevent some candidates from ever winning, and make their > winning regions > lie far away from them if they existed. We know that Approval is a method that r