Re: [EM] Simulation of political identity space in voting

2006-12-12 Thread raphfrk
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ka-Ping Ye did some excellent work The original is here, and was discussed on this list many months ago: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ Yeah, it's cool. Mostly I've independently verified the results, but I've added my favorite pet method, Instant Runoff

Re: [EM] Simulation of political identity space in voting

2006-12-12 Thread raphfrk
Also, what is interesting is that condorcet has alot less noise than max utility. I guess this is due to median being more resistant to noise than average. Raphfrk Interesting site what if anyone could modify the laws www.wikocracy.com

Re: [EM] Simulation of political identity space in voting

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Olson
On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mostly I've independently verified the results, but I've added my favorite pet method, Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings (IRNR) into the mix. When you say you average results, does that mean you mix the colour ?

[EM] Simulation of political identity space in voting

2006-12-11 Thread Brian Olson
Ka-Ping Ye did some excellent work which inspired me to replicate it. Given a two axis system of candidate and voter space, plot the results of population of voters centered at points on the plane voting based on distance to candidate. The original is here, and was discussed on this list