Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 01:13:04 -0700 From: Bart Ingles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... I have no idea how to locate "Vol 1 #597", so I don't know what Ken means by "exhibited abysmal performance". Was this a series of simulations? A single example?
In Merrill's 'Monte Carlo' simulations, approval voting did pretty well in terms of social utility-- better than all other methods in the three-candidate case, and only marginally worse than Condorcet and Borda with four or more candidates.
Bart
Bart,
Here's a link to #597, http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-April/012689.html (Search the text for "num_candidate=10".)
The main problem I saw with Approval occurred when there are many candidates, and when everyone votes based on a single election issue. Do you know if Merrill simulated this case?
Ken Johnson
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