2012-12-05T16:40:13Z, Kristofer Munsterhjelm:
> On 12/03/2012 05:53 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote:
> I only read the beginning of that thread, but it seems they're agreeing
> with RBJ: Score/Range asks too much of the voter.
My preferred method is Score-Voting, but I suggested ranked ballots
with 6 ranks because we have 6 mares running for Best Mare as an acceptable
alternative. This is the history:
We initially used plurality, but it did not work. The solution is to
use truncated Borda-Count with 2 ranking with # 1 getting 2 votes and # 2
getting 1 vote. I suppose that if this does not work, we can try truncated
Borda-Count with 3 ranks. This crazy incrementalism frustrates me.
If we would use full rankings, we could use Condorcet, Oklahoman
Electoral Primary-System, and Borda-Count on the output and get 3 full rankings
as a result. That would be interesting
> In any event, their objections (or arguments) seem to be based on the
> difficulty of answering honestly, not on strategic concerns.
Yes, these are honest ponies. I suspect that because of their honesty,
Borda-Count and Condorcet would both elect the same Best Mare.
> I'd say there's another method that fits in between and isn't too
> complex: MJ. MJ doesn't use ratings (and clearly not ratings from -999...999)
> but grades like "Poor", "Mediocre", "Good", etc.
The thing about Majority-Judgement is that the more detailed it is, the
less accurate it is. Still, what Majority-Judgement does is the equivalent of
filtering out outliners which might change the result:
We all know the 80%/20%-rule. This relates to the 1st
Feigenbaum-Constant
(4.66920160910299067185320382046620161725818557747576863274565134300413433021131473713868974402394801381716).
Let us suppose that we rank the mares on scale from negative -99 to positive
+99, then delete all scores of negative -99 and positive +99, and then remove
the top 20% of scores for each mare and the bottom 20% of scores for each mare,
and then average. The result should be mathematically equivalent to
Majority-Judgement.
1 advantage I see to this, is that it should favor centrists as much as
Borda-Count, but be as resistant to tactical voting as Condorcet and Approval
Voting. It is an interesting proposal.
> And if grading is too hard, then Schulze should work. It's hard to
> count, but there are websites that will do the actual counting.
I suggested doing full rankings and doing Borda-Count, Condorcet, and
Oklahoman Electoral Primary-System on the results.
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