2012/2/22 MIKE OSSIPOFF <[email protected]> > Jameson: > > 012/2/21 MIKE OSSIPOFF <[email protected]> > > I don't oppose MJ. I like Approval, and MJ is Approval. .... > > > > That's the obvious first improvement on Approval. Sure, MTA, MCA & > ABucklin improve on Approval too, slightly, by adding > more levels of majority-rule protection. > > > MJ is a Bucklin method too, and has exactly the same "levels of > majority-rule protection" as these other methods. > > [endquote] > > 1. But my point was that Bucklin's improvement over Approval is > insignificant compared to that of Optionally-Conditional-Approval (AOC), > MTAOC, MCAOC, and AOCBucklin. > > 2. So you're saying that if we count an MJ election by ABucklin as well > (we infer each ballots ranking from the order of its ratings), > the two methods will always get another answer? >
Not at all. I'm saying that "levels of majority-rule protection" does not require rankings; it works fine with ratings. Jameson > >
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