Dear Forest! You wrote: > At each successive stage we would base the new lottery calculation on a > weighted average of all the old cutoffs. In other words, the cutoff on > each ballot is adjusted slightly towards the most recent lottery > expected value before calculating the new lottery probabilities.
One must know the individual cardinal utility functions for this, it seems. An alternative would be to switch from expected utility 0-info strategy to median utility 0-info strategy (aka Weinstein's strategy) so that only rankings would have to be known. Jobst ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
