Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 09:44 PM 8/19/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
I would guess that if you searched the EM archives you would find
literally dozens of proposed methods that combine approval with a pairwise
measure.
And method which allows equal ranking and truncation is "Condorcet/Approval."
Abd,
Is "And.." suppose to read 'Any...', or is there some missing word?
As written, to the extent that it makes
sense it is false.
The term "Approval" is somewhat misleading for the method, because a
vote does not necessarily represent any absolute "Approval" of the
candidates, and some people have a reaction to the method based on an
idea that it does.
That is purely a secondary marketing issue. Perhaps you would like to
unilaterally change Approval's name?
It's a vote, pure and simple. "Approval" is a method which allows
overvoting, or equal rating.
It is, but is that supposed to be its definition? Maybe you are on your
way to changing Approval's
definition.
Chris Benham
At 09:44 PM 8/19/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
I would guess that if you searched the EM archives you would find
literally dozens of proposed methods that combine approval with a pairwise
measure.
And method which allows equal ranking and truncation is "Condorcet/Approval."
The term "Approval" is somewhat misleading for the method, because a
vote does not necessarily represent any absolute "Approval" of the
candidates, and some people have a reaction to the method based on an
idea that it does.
It's a vote, pure and simple. "Approval" is a method which allows
overvoting, or equal rating. Basic Approval is just Plurality with
that tweak. (Which is actually removing an old errooneous assumption,
the idea that an overvote is necessarily an error on the part of an
error. Why is it an error? Because the rules will discard the ballot.
Why will they discard the ballot? Because it is an error. Oops! A
very old Catch-22.)
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