Re: [EM] Ways to Evaluate Multiwinner Contests (Greg Nisbet)

2008-10-18 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Greg Nisbet wrote: So far some nice ideas have been proposed for measuring how effective a multiwinner method is. All of the ones proposed are based on n, let n be a list of utility scores for the candidates. 1. ln(2*sum(n)+a) we don't know what a is. It's probably pretty close to a constant, l

Re: [EM] Ways to Evaluate Multiwinner Contests (Greg Nisbet)

2008-10-11 Thread Greg Nisbet
small correction: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Greg Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > So far some nice ideas have been proposed for measuring how effective a > multiwinner method is. > All of the ones proposed are based on n, let n be a list of utility scores > for the candidates. > 1. ln(2*

[EM] Ways to Evaluate Multiwinner Contests (Greg Nisbet)

2008-10-11 Thread Greg Nisbet
So far some nice ideas have been proposed for measuring how effective a multiwinner method is. All of the ones proposed are based on n, let n be a list of utility scores for the candidates. 1. ln(2*sum(n)+a) we don't know what a is. It's probably pretty close to a constant, let's just call it 1. 2.