No, but although it is not summable, you can centralize the decision
using a low number of communications. > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:09:06 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EM] Median ratings > > Hello, > > Is it possible to make Median Ratings summable? Median Ratings works > like this: gather rated ballots, then the winner is the candidate with > the greatest median score. > > Even if it's not a very good method, a way to make it summable would be > of interest to me because it would let me calculate median > proportionality/BR scores without having to store an array of all n > scores (for n rounds). > > That is, unless the summable version only determines which candidate has > the greatest median rating (or the order thereof) rather than the actual > median ratings for the different candidates. > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
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