Forest: Most preferred according to the information in the ordinal preference ballots.
SB --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Steve Barney wrote: > > > Yes, of course we have limited information by which to determine the group's > > best candidate, but what if we focus on nothing but the information which is > > contained in an ordinal preference ballot? [...] > > In that case, the "best" candidate > > may be defined as the one who is most preferred according to the information > > contained in fully ranked ordinal preference ballots. > > Most preferred according to which measure of preference? The preferences > are given as vector valued functions. For maximization, those vectors > have to be turned into scalars. There are infinitely many different ways > of doing this, each yielding a different measure of preference. > [...] > Forest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
