On Oct 29, 2006, at 23:26 , Kevin Venzke wrote: > So it seems to me that there are a couple of necessary conditions > for Range to be a good method for decision-making: > 1. that the vast majority of voters care about reaching a consensus > result, and will not throw this priority out when they realize that > voters can and will undermine this result in their own favor > AND > 2. that voters lack some other way of learning what the other voters > want.
Couldn't there be also some really friendly elections / polls where condition 2 is compromised but Range still works. E.g. "I already know what Adam and Bob think about this since I asked them, but it is still really interesting to see the total results of what ice cream flavour our group thinks is the best". Juho Laatu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
