Re: [EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding

2003-09-22 Thread Gervase Lam
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:55:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Forest Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding Here's the simplest idea along these lines that seems promising to me. Well. The idea is easier to explain than Max Power Cardinal Ratings

Re: [EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding

2003-09-19 Thread Forest Simmons
Here's the simplest idea along these lines that seems promising to me. I'm more excited about it than I have been any of my other ideas in the last few weeks: Each voter votes a CR ballot on which one of the candidates is the virtual Borderline Acceptable Candidate (BAC). On each ballot BAC's

Re: [EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding

2003-09-13 Thread Kevin Venzke
Forest, --- Forest Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Suppose you were given a set of voted CR ballots, perhaps with supplemental information such as a tentative approval cutoff. What rule would you use to adjust the approval cutoff by taking into account the popularity of the various

Re: [EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding

2003-09-13 Thread Forest Simmons
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Kevin Venzke wrote: ... [skipping past many great insights to this proposal] ... When there are cycles, I think there's necessarily a game of chicken going on among the voters. I think an approval measurement is the best way to resolve the game, forcing

[EM] Call for Ideas on Automatic Approval Cutoff Finding

2003-09-12 Thread Forest Simmons
Suppose you were given a set of voted CR ballots, perhaps with supplemental information such as a tentative approval cutoff. What rule would you use to adjust the approval cutoff by taking into account the popularity of the various candidates as manifested by the ballots themselves, as opposed to