Chris Benham wrote:
*Kristofer Munsterhjelm* wrote (Sun. Aug.10):
There's also the it smells fishy that nonmonotonicity - of any kind or
frequency - evokes. I think that's stronger for nonmonotonicity than for
things like strategy vulnerability because it's an error that appears in
the method
Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (Sun. Aug.10):
There's also the it smells fishy that nonmonotonicity - of any kind or
frequency - evokes. I think that's stronger for nonmonotonicity than for
things like strategy vulnerability because it's an error that appears in
the method itself, rather than
Kathy Dopp wrote:
From: rob brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] Can someone point me at an example of the
nonmonotonicity of IRV?
Are you aware that in going to a doctor to treat an injury, you can get in a
car accident and get injured some more? Why would anyone go to a doctor
On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:43 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
There's also the it smells fishy that nonmonotonicity - of any
kind or frequency - evokes. I think that's stronger for
nonmonotonicity than for things like strategy vulnerability because
it's an error that appears in the method
Kathy Dopp wrote (Sat. Aug.10):
Well perhaps there are other voting methods where ranking my first
choice candidate below my last choice candidate helps my first choice
candidate to win more than vice-versa, and I would oppose any method
that did that.
Kathy,
What exactly do mean here by more
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Kathy Dopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently not recommending *any* until I have more time and
inclination to sit down to thoroughly study all the alternatives. I
know that IRV is a really bad method as applied to real life
elections, and I suspect that
All election methods have vulnerabilities. These monotonicity
failures may look bad on paper but in real life elections they are
typically not that harmful. If some IRV voter asks if he should vote
sincerely or falsify his vote somehow due to the non-monotonic
properties the general
From: rob brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] Can someone point me at an example of the
nonmonotonicity of IRV?
Are you aware that in going to a doctor to treat an injury, you can get in a
car accident and get injured some more? Why would anyone go to a doctor if
doing so can
On Aug 10, 2008, at 7:13 , Kathy Dopp wrote:
All election methods have vulnerabilities. These monotonicity
failures may look bad on paper but in real life elections they are
typically not that harmful. If some IRV voter asks if he should vote
sincerely or falsify his vote somehow due to the
