On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Terry Bouricius wrote:
Would we agree that voting methods do best when voters give their sincere
rankings to avoid GIGO distortion? Since all voting methods can be subject to
strategic voting strategies with incomplete, exaggerated or insincere ballot
Here's one simple approach.
- all voters rank all the rooms
- use Borda like personal utility values = last room = 0 points, one
but last = 1 point etc. (also other than this kind of linear scale
could be used)
- find the room allocation that gives the highest sum of utilities
- if there is
:59 AM
Subject: Re: [EM] Professorial Office Picking
Here's one simple approach.
- all voters rank all the rooms
- use Borda like personal utility values = last room = 0 points, one but
last = 1 point etc. (also other than this kind of linear scale could be used)
- find the room
Something like a CTT auction could be used here.
Each bidder submits a sealed ballot containing the dollar value of each office.
For all possible permutations work out the sum of all the bids.
Assign the offices to the arrangement that gives the highest sum.
For each bidder,
- determine the
Raph Frank Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:17 PM
Something like a CTT auction could be used here.
Each bidder submits a sealed ballot containing the dollar
value of each office.
For all possible permutations work out the sum of all the bids.
Assign the offices to the arrangement
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:07:21 -0500
From: Terry Bouricius ter...@burlingtontelecom.net
Would we agree that voting methods do best when voters give their sincere
rankings to avoid GIGO distortion? Since all voting methods can be subject to
strategic voting strategies with incomplete,
At 05:59 AM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote:
Here's one simple approach.
- all voters rank all the rooms
- use Borda like personal utility values = last room = 0 points,
one but last = 1 point etc. (also other than this kind of linear
scale could be used)
- find the room allocation that gives the
At 03:13 PM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote:
Sure. But equal ranking must be allowed, otherwise noise is
introduced. Borda with equal ranking (and therefore empty ranks,
otherwise equal ranked votes are reduced in strength) is Range. Why
not just use Range, allowing greater precision. One could use a
At 10:37 AM 1/23/2010, Michael Rouse wrote:
Steven E. Landsburg (author of The Armchair Economist), had an
interesting problem here:
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/21/office-politics/http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/21/office-politics/
(in reference to an original question of the
Steven E. Landsburg (author of The Armchair Economist), had an
interesting problem here:
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/21/office-politics/ (in reference
to an original question of the New York Times ethics column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-Ethicist-t.html)
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