Re: [EM] Why the "jury" approach is right for large public elections

2004-02-28 Thread Forest Simmons
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Forest Simmons wrote: > > More to the point, if the sample of voters were more than ten thousand, > then the probability of the voters in the sample being pivotal would be > small enough that there would little incentive for them to study the > issues carefully, given the ot

[EM] Re: [Fwd: Election-methods digest, Vol 1 #520 - 13 msgs]

2004-02-28 Thread Ken Johnson
--__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:56:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [EM] Re: EM] There's nothing wrong with Average Rating. From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was my understanding that Arrow's theorum does apply to CR. A

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

2004-02-28 Thread Ken Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:47:40 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EM] Re: Election-methods digest, Vol 1 #517 - 3 msgs Ken Johnson wrote: >... > >On the other hand, it may be that the optimum-rating function