Hi Juho, --- En date de : Dim 29.5.11, Juho Laatu <[email protected]> a écrit : > This is > why I suggest that > > you had better force voters to rank everyone in a > margins method. > > In som sense margins does this. Vote "B" gives the same > result as half vote "B>A>C" and half vote > "B>C>A" together. Or statistically the results are the > same if all uncertain voters will flip a coin and vote > either way.
Yes, margins makes truncation (and equal ranking) an *indistinct* strategy. It supposes that if we stop people from telling half-truths, they'll just tell the whole truth. The "voters are just being lazy" theory, I guess. Kevin ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
