>> The author of this particular page makes much of the pitfalls of strategic >> voting, which should not matter to a set of emotionally disinterested, >> independent agent routines. But range voting has one further advantage over >> borda voting: expressiveness. If an agent is given 99 votes to cast, the >> agent can say that A is a really fine move, worth 45 points; B and C and D >> are worth 15 points each, and I have no opinion on the remaining choices" -- >> or whatever reflects the state of the board as understood by this particular >> agent. This expressiveness may help or hinder; hard to say. >> >> Yes, it's complicated. I think for humans the expressiveness may hurt quite a bit if there were many candidates. I once tried to rate a portion of my music collection, song by song. I assigned a rating to each song and when I was finished I noticed that I preferred some lower rated songs much more than ones I gave a higher rating. It's incredibly difficult for humans to be objective. It's heavily biased especially by the order in which you look at the songs. I think if you see one you hate, you will give the next one too high a rating if you like it. It was easier to put them in order of how much I liked them, but even that was difficult and depended on the mood at the moment and the order I considered them. I found myself swapping a LOT. It was an interesting exercise in psychology!
I wasn't clear on range-voting. Was your understanding that you are given 99 votes to cast any way you chose? Are you obligated to give all 99 votes away? - Don _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
