>Venzke: agree with your conclusion, that 3-slot median rating would not see >much advantage over Approval. I don't think I understand your reasoning though.
I don't think the value of X is especially useful information to the strategic voter. I can see a value of 50% as possibly useful --WDS: it isn't that the particular value of X is useful info. It is that with any FIXED value of X, it will be 99.9999% certain that (with some very large #voters who behave in some probabilsitically-selected way) the election will end in round R, where R is 1 or R is 2, I don't care which, all I care about is R is the same every time. This is just the law of large numbers. Now if everbody knows the first round is the only one that matters, then everbody will vote approval-style. BUT if the value of X is unpredictable that may no longer be true. Frankly, though, I do not understand how to analyse this. Or how the voters would then behave. Or what. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
