On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:50:26PM +0100, Jobst Heitzig wrote: > Dear Andrew and Juho! > > You seem to agree that... > > ...if votes are sincere, the best voting method would > > not be Condorcet at all. It would be for each voter to assign a > > number of points to each candidate representing the utility they > > ascribe to that candidate. The candidate with the largest total > > utility would win. This method has obvious advantages over Condorcet: > > it is simpler and takes advantage of more information from the > > voters. Of course, it is trivially vulnerable to insincere voters. > > My position on this question is: Such a method would not only be > vulnerable to insincere voters, it would invite them!
If the utilities aren't bounded, I'd certainly agree. But if the utilities (ratings) are bounded (say, between 0 and 1), then don't you have a mostly harmless generalization of approval? -- Andrew ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
