There's nothing wrong with the Average Rating method. We also call it
Cardinal Ratings (CR).
CR is strategically equiovalent to Approval: In CR, you maximize your
expectation by giving maximum points to those candidates for whom you'd vote
in Approval, and giving minimum points to the rest.
Th
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Adam Tarr wrote:
>
> Both Jefferson and Webster try to minimize the error between
> perfect proportionality and the actual representative allocation. The
> difference is that Jeffeson only considers under-represenation an error,
> whereas Webster considers both over-represen
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:50:55 +0100 (CET)
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Kevin=20Venzke?=
> Subject: [EM] Minimally improving Approval
I've been half thinking about this and also one of things that Forest
sort of mentioned that really it would be nice for MCA to have a moveable
top slot "quota" inst
The Hare quota is unsound if you use it with STV, because it can give
an unproportional result. The link discusses only the Hare quota with
STV.
Sainte-Laguë does not favour smaller parties, it's neutral in this
respect. If you compare it with d'Hondt, it looks as if it favours
small parties b
