I made a mistake in my terminology... Richard Moore wrote: > Some abbreviations: NZI is non-zero information (based on picking two > of the five candidates at random to be "front-runners"); otherwise > zero-info strategy was used. BordaWV is Borda calculated with winning > votes, which I believe is the best way to do Borda. The other Borda > is Borda calculated with margins, which I have seen someone in this > group advocate (I forget who).
For "winning votes" I should have said "all votes", and for "margins" I should have said "all votes for minus all votes against". At any rate those were the two ways of counting Borda that I was thinking about when I wrote that paragraph. But the code I implemented is the other way around. The "Borda" result is from the "all votes" method, and the "BordaWV" is from the "votes for minus votes against" method. I don't know how I came to use the incorrect designation "WV" in my program, but since this is the first time I've looked at that code in many months, I was temporarily thrown off by that abbreviation. I think that was a late change I was experimenting with before I put the code aside. At any rate, I didn't implement a truncation strategy for Borda so any expressive advantage that the "all votes" method has isn't realized here. -- Richard ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
