Re: [EM] another wiki poll - assign ratings to single-winner methods!

2005-06-28 Thread James Green-Armytage
Hi Juho, Your questions are good. I will try to answer them as well as I can. For reference, the poll in question is at this address: http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Method_evaluation_poll >The guidelines are quite clear, no problem with them. I had however >some other problems that stop

[EM] That most ambitious criterion

2005-06-28 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Though it's almost surely unattainable, there should be a name for the criterion that says that the matter of whether the winner comes from {A,B} is never affected by how a particular voter (or set of same-voting voters) orders A & B. If that were attainable, it would be the goal for which a

RE: [EM] Measuring the risk of strict ranking

2005-06-28 Thread Kevin Venzke
Mike, --- MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > You continued: >> >> In other words, it must *never* be optimal strategy (i.e., be best for >> {a,b}) >> to vote A=B. The problem with this is that most likely the optimal strategy >> will >> be to vote the more viable candidate over the l