Re: [EM] Utilitarianism and Perfectionism.

2012-02-10 Thread David L Wetzell
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[EM] Jameson: I thought you said that people can safely rate sincerely in MJ.

2012-02-10 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Jameson: I'd said: Say my sincere ratings are: x: 100 y: 90 (other candidates considerably lower) Your sincere ratings are: y: 100 x: 90 (other candidates considerably lower) x and y are similar, but different enough to be supported by different factions. This situation is

[EM] My Bucklin multiwinner method turned more sequential

2012-02-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Earlier I mentioned that I had found a way of making my Bucklin multiwinner method more managable - more sequential. I did not, however, say exactly how I had done that. So why not do that here? Consider my previous version of the Bucklin multiwinner method (for which I still haven't found a

Re: [EM] My Bucklin multiwinner method turned more sequential

2012-02-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 02/10/2012 11:02 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: We can add a candidate C_k to PC if there exists a subset (coalition) that supports at least k+1 candidates, where k is the cardinality of the intersection of PC and that coalition, and that coalition also contains C_k. Oops, seems I reused

Re: [EM] My Bucklin multiwinner method turned more sequential

2012-02-10 Thread Ted Stern
Hi Kristofer, I am very interested in PR multiwinner methods, especially those that use ER-Bucklin. However, I have a hard time following your logic. Would it be possible to work out a relatively simple example using a 3 winner election, a Droop-like quota of 25% (just to make things easy), and