[EM] Re : Condorcet vs Range (Greg Nisbet)

2008-10-12 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Greg, --- En date de : Sam 11.10.08, Greg Nisbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I suggest Condorcet//Approval with ranking among disapproved candidates disallowed. Though apparently you are adamant about Clone-Winner compliance. I merely said that of the methods I am aware of, Schulze,

[EM] IRV vs Condorcet vs Range/Score

2008-10-12 Thread Chris Benham
Aaron, I agree that not electing a voted CW is undesirable, and any method that fails the Condorcet criterion needs to be justified by complying with at least one desirable criterion that isn't compatible with Condorcet. Low social utility (SU) Condorcet winners with little solid support and

[EM] multiwinner election methods

2008-10-12 Thread Warren Smith
1. the right way to compare election methods is Bayesian Regret (BR). http://rangevoting.org/BayRegDum.html For a long time I thought this was only applicable for single-winner voting methods. However, I eventually saw how to do it for multiwinner methods also:

[EM] Fw: IRV vs Condorcet vs Range/Score

2008-10-12 Thread Aaron Armitage
Chris Benham sent this to me. I think he meant to send it to the entire list; I've made the same mistake. Reply to follow. --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Chris Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chris Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IRV vs Condorcet vs Range/Score To: EM

[EM] Range vs Condorcet Overview

2008-10-12 Thread Greg Nisbet
I'll attempt to organize the Range Voting vs Condorcet debate somewhat. From what I can see, the following methods have been proposed/have some argument defending them/are reasonably good representatives of the groups being considered: Range Voting: There are two types of arguments against this

[EM] Request for Multiwinner Methods

2008-10-12 Thread Greg Nisbet
For the Intel Science Talent Search, Warren Smith and I are working on a system to measure how representative the groups created by various multiwinner electoral methods are. This shall be done by having the public have opinions of various binary social issues and the candidates will have stance