OK, it seems that I have made one or more assertions which, if you believed
them, would change your mind about MJ. Of all the times you said "unproven
assertion" below, please tell me specifically which fall into each of the
following categories:
1. You believe they are likely to be true, but still
I'd said:
Exactly. Your letter-grades encourage sub-optimal voting.
Jameson said:
"Zero-info" optimal strategy is to vote on an absolute scale such that for
recent elections you would have given equal numbers of each grade A-D and
twice that number of Fs. (Or slightly more sophisticated: give th
> Removing a losing candidate from the ballots and from the election,
> and then re-counting the ballots, shouldn't change the winner.
>
> Approval and Score pass.
>
Michael, I find it very inconsistent for you to argue so adamantly for
voters to use maximal strategy and then to use a criterion th
On 1/6/13 2:46 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On 01/06/2013 01:54 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
We live in a technological society. Among some people, there's a
tendency to worship science. Anything that;s more complex is felt to
likely be better. That's MJ's mystique.
It's just complicated e
On 01/06/2013 01:54 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
We live in a technological society. Among some people, there's a
tendency to worship science. Anything that;s more complex is felt to
likely be better. That's MJ's mystique.
It's just complicated enough that it's easy to obfuscate (for oneself)
wh
> Exactly. Your letter-grades encourage sub-optimal voting.
>
"Zero-info" optimal strategy is to vote on an absolute scale such that for
recent elections you would have given equal numbers of each grade A-D and
twice that number of Fs. (Or slightly more sophisticated: give the same
score distribut
