I'd said:
> But I'd told how easily a strategic faction can take advantage of and beat
> a sincere-voting faction.
>
Not to my satisfaction.
[endquote]
Of course that won't do.
If you want to claim that my statements referred to were incorrect,
then you need to tell why you think so.
I clearly told how, in MJ, a strategizing faction can take advantage of a
sincere faction. Which
part of that description do you disagree with? Be specific.
I'd said:
> Thanks, Kristofer, for confirming my conjecture: MJ strategy is like RV
> strategy.
>
> This is for sure: In a u/a election, MJ's strategy is the same as that of
> RV: Max-rate the acceptables and
> min-rate the unacceptables.
>
This is not true. If sending a message about the relative value within
either group is worth more than a thousand times less than winning the
election, the rational strategy is to use the top two and the bottom two
ratings.
[endquote]
Incorrect. In a u/a election, the all-important thing is ensuring that no
unacceptable candidate wins.
> I conjecture that, in a non-u/a, 0-info election, MJ's strategy is
> likewise identical to that of RV: Max-rate the
> above-mean candidates and min-rate the below-mean candidates.
As above.
[endquote]
Strategy whose purpose is the the outcome of the current election is called
"instrumental strategy".
It's usually or always what we're referring to when we speak of a method's
voting strategy.
I was talking about instrumental strategy. That can be, and often is, more
important than
sending a message. But sure, if what you want is to send a message about a
merit-difference among the
candidates for whom you'd vote for in instrumental Approval voting, then of
course you might not do
instrumental voting.
Sometimes, in mock elections, in rating the candidates,
I have slightly differed from instrumental voting in order to express a
difference.
But, above, I was talking about instrumental strategy. Maybe you wouldn't do
instrumental
strategy. One thing for certain is that anyone who considers it a u/a election
will do
instrumental strategy.
Mike Ossipoff
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