On 06/08/2013 10:16 PM, Chris Benham wrote:
Yes.
Say there are three candidates: Right, Centre-Right and Left, and the
approval votes cast are
49: Right
21: Centre-Right (all prefer Right to Left)
23: Left
07: Left, Centre-Right (sincere favourite is Left)
Approval votes: Right 49, Left
Say we have an organization or government that wants to use a better
type of two-round runoff than top-two Plurality. What kind of
distribution should the candidates for the second round have?
To be a little more specific, and to make the concept a bit easier to
think about, consider a top-n
Jameson said:
I think we could have plenty of question captchas of the form:
* What letters are missing in E_ecto_ama (in order, no spaces)?
* What letters are missing in Gibba_d-Satterth_aite
http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Gibbard-Satterthwaite_theorem
(in order, no spaces)?
At 02:46 AM 6/13/2013, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Finally, I'd like to say that I do understand that reality is a lot
less neat. What Abd says about differences in turnout in the first
and second rounds of a runoff means that criteria are not as useful
as for single-round methods because
At 03:15 AM 6/13/2013, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Say we have an organization or government that wants to use a better
type of two-round runoff than top-two Plurality. What kind of
distribution should the candidates for the second round have?
To be a little more specific, and to make the
At 06:24 PM 6/12/2013, Jameson Quinn wrote:
Uh, Score systems can ba amagalamated as median or as average or as sum.
This isn't the misunderstanding I was talking about, but by saying
Score with a capital S I was referring to a summed or averaged system.
The latter fits most closely with
I just had a minor realization. As I said to Abd, his Bucklin-ER (as I
understand it) has slightly less resistance to the chicken dilemma than
GMJ, because the Bucklin-ER tiebreaker effectively ends up focusing
slightly below the median in the grade distribution, while GMJ focuses on a
region
I just want to repeat a suggestion I've made here more than once. Take my
previous example where the Centre-Right candidate is elected due to some of the
Left candidate's supporters using the Compromise strategy.
49: Right
28: Centre-Right (7 are sincere LeftCentre-Right)
23: Left
