O/D may well be better than MDDA, in terms of pure merit. For instance, it
might be that O/D doesn't need power-truncation to match Approval's simple
acceptable/unacceptable strategy. And it apparently can have full
ranking-expressivity without Deluxe MDDA's separate Approval cutoff.
But MDDA is extremely simple, briefly-defined, and easy to propose. O/D
requires a longer definition, and, like many very good methods, probably
sounds too mathematical for public acceptance. It seems to me that O/D
doesn't have the simplicity that is needed for public acceptance.
Of course, after MDDA has been enacted, power truncation could be proposed
as a subsequent proposal. Maybe later, deluxe MDDA. So MDDA can start out
starkly simple, and be improved incrementally later.
Mike Ossipoff
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