Chris Benham wrote:
Ok, suppose there are two candidates and three voters, and the voting
method is Range Voting
using the scale 0-100. All three voters are completely sincere.
Voters 1 and 2 both prefer candidate A to candidate B, but not by much
and they are not very impressed by either. The
"Bayesian regret".
I may not be completely on top of the "technical" definition of "Bayesian
regret", but I know what "regret" is,
and I have this explanation from Warren D. Smith of what he means by
the term. This is from page 13 of his
paper "Candidate Incentives under different v
Chris,
Your arguments aren't making much sense to me. You quote one
advocate of range voting regarding "regret" and majority rule
and suggest that all range voting advocates say the same thing.
What evidence do you have that most RV advocates say this, or
even that it is what the one person you qu
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:26:05 +1030, Chris Benham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Florian Legyel asked me (Sat.Jan1):
>
> >What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of
> >Bayesian regret by range voting with the emotional states of voters?
> >
> CB: I could perhaps have omitted
Florian Legyel asked me (Sat.Jan1):
What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of
Bayesian regret by range voting with the emotional states of voters?
CB: I could perhaps have omitted the word "Bayesian", because that
just refers to "averaged over a vast number of
randomiz
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:33:11 +1030, Chris Benham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralph Suter wrote (Wed.Dec.15):
>
> them? CB: Range Voting is fine if all one cares about is "minimizing
> Bayesian regret" (Warren D. Smith, one of the paper's
> authors) or meeting the "Favourite Betrayal Cri
Ralph Suter wrote (Wed.Dec.15):
Will someone on the list who has studied range voting and compared it to
Condorcet, approval, and other methods please comment on Doug Greene's paper? He
appears to be saying that range voting is superior to all other single winner
method
Ralph Suter wrote (Wed.Dec.15):
Will someone on the list who has studied range voting and compared it to
Condorcet, approval, and other methods please comment on Doug Greene's paper? He
appears to be saying that range voting is superior to all other single winner
methods. Are there good a
