Jameson, good idea and valuable comments.
However, I'm not sure that regret is the right word. I regret something after I make a bad choice. I resent something when I make a good choice that is over-ridden by somebody with the power to do so. I suggest "Least Resentment Voting," LRV. Forest ----- Original Message ----- From: Jameson Quinn Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 4:46 pm Subject: Re: [EM] MMPO and Symmetric Completion To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > Now let's come up with a good name for this MMPO with partial > symmetric> completion. Actually we > > need a good technical name as well as a catchy name for public > proposal.> > > This is indeed a good method. In simple parlance, you want the > candidatewho is least disliked against any other candidate, > counting equal bottom as > half-disliked. So I suggest "Least Regret Voting" as a name. > > Unfortunately, this philosophy -- choosing the least-worst -- is less > intuitively-appealing to most people than majoritarian > philosophies. If I > didn't know how the two systems worked, I'd probably be more > inclined to > like a system called "Majority Judgment" than a system called > "Least Regret > Voting". > > (Actually, even knowing their content, I'd still probably pick > MJ; though > I'd pick LRV if you modified it slightly by using a ballot with > meaningfulrating categories, which is perfectly compatible with > the system. I'll > still be pushing MJ and SODA over rated-LRV, though, until > there's at least > a few dozen people in the world not on this list who've heard of LRV. > Anyway, regardless of which methods I support, I still think > it's a pity > that the naming has an inherent bias towards MJ over LRV; the systems > should win or lose on their merits, not on their names.) > > As for a technical name... I guess I'd choose "BSC-MMPO", > Bottom-symmetrically-completed etc. But I'm one who's perfectly > happy to > call MJ, "MJ", rather than "Cardinal Median//Median Drop Median" > or some > such technically-descriptive name. So I don't really care about the > technical names. > > Jameson > > ps. I know that BR fans might object to the different definition of > "regret" implicit in calling it LRV; but I was never a fan of > the "BR" name > myself so I can't say I worry about that. BR is a great idea > but, I feel, a > poor name. > ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
