Hi again, >- When you presents simulation results, is the best method the one with >greatest or smallest score? IRV is considered the best majoritarian method >but its score is between Nauru-Borda and Plurality
Oops, that was an error on my part. Since the scores are normalized root-mean-square error measurements between the assembly and public issue profiles, lower is better. >- In some countries, particularly federative ones, many issues are highly >correlated to subnational territories. Because of this, in real scenarios >majoritarian methods are a bit more proportional than in simulations where >all political factions are equally spread within all the country. Had you >considered some correlation with distribution of issue vectors and electoral >districts? Since the simulation runs a given election method only once per evaluation, it elects the entire assembly from a single set of ballots, which means it doesn't know anything about regionality. It shouldn't be too hard to implement district votes: simply have q districts and q mini-elections for their parts of the assembly. In the case of a nationwide vote (single election to entire assembly) with correlation of issue vectors and electoral districts, I don't think the results would differ much, since the largest district or group of districts would trump the other districts. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
