Forest, --- "Simmons, Forest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > In Jonathan's example below I would expect the lone voter to be > considered an outlier. Most, if not all, of the other voters would > consider his idea to be the most extreme. I would expect the two large > factions to move together to the North side of the room, leaving Solomon > alone on the South side. The lone extremest would be a member of the > first pair to be eliminated.
I think you need a deterministic way to decide which factions go where. Otherwise it is quite obvious that factions want to be as close to the center as possible. I suppose you could (if there were enough information already about voter preferences) randomly pick a voter to start, and this voter would pick a voter to eliminate, and this person would pick the next voter, etc. Then effectively the third-to-last voter selects which of the other two makes the decision. Kevin Venzke __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Mail vous offre la meilleure protection possible contre les messages non sollicités http://mail.yahoo.fr Yahoo! Mail ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
