Re: [EM] Re: EM] There's nothing wrong with Average Rating.

2004-02-26 Thread Bart Ingles
It was my understanding that Arrow's theorum does apply to CR. Actually it applies to Approval as well, it's just that Approval meets all of the conditions except allowing voters to rank three or more choices in order. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like CR Approval as well, in particular

Re: CR == Approval? Re: [EM] Re: Election-methods digest, Vol 1 #517 - 3 msgs

2004-02-26 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Adam Tarr wrote: Ernest Prabhakar wrote: However, it seems like there can well be extreme cases, due to either detailed information or sub-optimal strategic behavior by opponents, where a different strategy would actually be more -effective- (optimal doesn't mean

[EM] Quota Limited Weighted Approval

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Benham
Participants, Here is my improvement on previous versions of "Weighted Median Approval" single-winner ranked-ballot method. Voters rank the candidates. Equal preferences and truncation ok. (1) Symetrically complete the ballots. (2) Based on these now symetrically completed

Re: CR == Approval? Re: [EM] Re: Election-methods digest, Vol 1 #517 - 3 msgs

2004-02-26 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Adam , Good work Ernie. Thanks. So this would be just such a case, where due to the extremely precise knowledge and the hair's-breadth nature of the election, the marginal utility for each additional point for candidate C is not constant. If we were to make this election have a plausible

[EM] My Ballot

2004-02-26 Thread Dgamble997
My ballot is as follows: George W. Bush [43] [] [1] Howard Dean [9] [X] [50] Edwards [10] [] [48] Kerry [8] [X] [55] Kucinich [2] [X] [96] Nader [1] [X] [100] Sharpton [19] [] [30] Jim Hightower [40] [] [5] Amy Goodman [29] [] [5] Ron Daniels [22] [] [5] Medea Benjamin [32] [] [5] Winona LaDuke

Re: [EM] Real usage of my site

2004-02-26 Thread Ma Anguo
On Friday 27 Feb 2004 4:46 am, Eric Gorr wrote: Apparently the Haifa Linux Club (Israeli Linux User Group - http://www.haifux.org/) used my Condorcet voting calculator to select their logo. There were 16 options and 20 voters. I found it interesting that no cycles were generated in this case.

Collective individual rationality (was Re: [EM] Real usage of my site)

2004-02-26 Thread Steve Eppley
Augustin wrote: On Friday 27 Feb 2004 4:46 am, Eric Gorr wrote: Apparently the Haifa Linux Club (Israeli Linux User Group - http://www.haifux.org/) used my Condorcet voting calculator to select their logo. There were 16 options and 20 voters. I found it interesting that no cycles were

[EM] pSTV v0.3

2004-02-26 Thread Jeffrey O'Neill
I've just released version 0.3 of pSTV. The most significant change is that Cambridge, MA rules are now implemented. Methods available are: - SNTV - IRV - Simple STV (description included with the program) - ERS97 STV - Cambridge, MA - Meek STV - highly customizable random

[EM] My Ballot

2004-02-26 Thread Joe Weinstein
My Ballot 1. BALLOT PARAMETERS AND CONVENTIONS: My ballot uses 5-slot CR, corresponding to usual ‘academic grading’. From top to bottom, the five grades are the usual A,B,C,D,F - corresponding to ranks 1,2,3,4,5 and to cardinal-rating or grade-point values 4,3,2,1,0. Approved slots are

[EM] Quota Limited Weighted Approval (oops! reference to Margins was wrong)

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Benham
Participants, Here is my improvement on previous versions of Weighted Median Approval single-winner ranked-ballot method. Voters rank the candidates. Equal preferences and truncation ok. (1) Symetrically complete the ballots. (2) Based on these now symetrically completed ballots, give each

Re: [EM] Re: EM] There's nothing wrong with Average Rating.

2004-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was my understanding that Arrow's theorum does apply to CR. Actually it applies to Approval as well, it's just that Approval meets all of the conditions except allowing voters to rank three or more choices in order. It was my understanding that Arrow's theorem only applies to ordinal