I don't recall using the term "average ranking". My focus was on
average (or total) point counts (i.e. Borda scores), as a way of showing
the practical and strategic equivalence among the Borda variations
mentioned.
Steve Barney wrote:
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> Bart:
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> OK, I get it now. When I see the term "av
Here's a suggested hybrid method that completely orders the candidates
while respecting the order of the various Condorcet equivalence classes:
Seed Bubble Sort with the Modified Bucklin order described below.
[Bubble Sort recursively sorts the top m-1 seeded candidates, and then
percolates the
I want to make a (hopefully) final modification to my previous versions of
Modified Bucklin. Here it is:
The context is a single winner election with N candidates. Each ballot has
(potentially) R distinguishable levels (counting truncations as the lowest
level), some of which may go unused by so
>> Subject: [EM] FBC ambiguity & language for EM
The quotes here were from a message that didn't use quote
marks, so when I started trimming it, it quickly became
impossible to recall who said what. So I'm probably replying
to several people, identity lost.
>> Ok, then "informal" differs from "
>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [EM] Advantages of CR style ballots
>> > >> Each voter marks a smudge to the right of each candidate's
>> > >> name. The smudgier the smudge, the higher the rating. The
>> > >> mechanical smudge reader automatically calibrates to each
>
Here's another idea or two stimulated by David Catchpole's posting below:
Suppose someone believed that all of the relevant information for making
the "fairest" choice in an N candidate single winner election resided in
the N by N pairwise matrix.
In other words, suppose someone believed that i
Bart:
OK, I get it now. When I see the term "average ranking" I think of something
other than what you describe. I think you get a more intuitive, and perhaps
more descriptive sense of "average ranking" if you do as follows. You average
the RANKINGS for each candidate by dividing the sum of the r
