Re: [EM] Continuous bias

2011-05-16 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Juho Laatu wrote: The final of the Eurovision Song Contest of this year was held last saturday. In the vote all countries give points to the songs of all other countries (that made it to the final). The voting traditions are a bit biased. Countries tend to give high points to their neighbours or

Re: [EM] Continuous bias

2011-05-16 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, currently, there is the tradition to give 12, 10, 8 points always to its political/ethnic/geographic neighbours. I recommend that a Condorcet method should be used to reduce the effects of this voting behaviour. As Condorcet methods put less emphasis on first preferences, the above voting

Re: [EM] electing a variable number of seats

2011-05-16 Thread Andy Jennings
Forrest, With this profile, using RRV, Y is elected in round 1 and X is elected in round 2. As such, they will have equal weight. However, we can continue to iterate RRV, without removing these candidates. The more times a candidate is chosen, the more voting weight he will get. The election

Re: [EM] Continuous bias

2011-05-16 Thread Juho Laatu
On 16.5.2011, at 15.30, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho Laatu wrote: The final of the Eurovision Song Contest of this year was held last saturday. In the vote all countries give points to the songs of all other countries (that made it to the final). The voting traditions are a bit biased.

Re: [EM] Continuous bias

2011-05-16 Thread Juho Laatu
On 16.5.2011, at 15.49, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, currently, there is the tradition to give 12, 10, 8 points always to its political/ethnic/geographic neighbours. I recommend that a Condorcet method should be used to reduce the effects of this voting behaviour. As Condorcet methods put