I don't know if it's been proven, but I don't dispute it. In fact
people with different sets of information could produce the same orders
of preference, but with different meaning in the second case.
David Catchpole wrote:
>
> I pray one day someone will actually demonstrate (and I hope they have)
> that purely rational actors with identical information in an election will
> always vote identically with anyone with the same order of preference. I
> think it's pretty intuitive, and it could be worked out just using simple
> principles from game theory. Maybe then the approvalists and the other
> "qualitative" election system enthusiasts will sometimes bite their
> tongues.
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > D- For about the 15th time, I mention that mere number voting (i.e. relative
> > ranking) does NOT show any approval of any choice.
