Re: [EM] Scale Votes

2001-03-07 Thread Forest Simmons
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 Mr. Demolition Repo Man wrote: Mr. X wrote about vote intensities. Again- a scale vote goes from plus 100 percent to minus 100 percent. Simple example- Votes Percent Scale 2 A (1) 1 B (100) Sorry for the intense B supporter (could be B him/her

[EM] Brief comments about the simulations

2001-03-07 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Sometimes simulations are done with random rankings or random ratings, and sometimes that's better, but usually a spatial simulation is considered to be the most lifelike one. Randomly position candidates voters in an issue space, of one or more dimensions (But of course if there are more

[EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-07 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
I've just tried to post this, but when I did, I received a reply from eskimo.com, giving me instructions on subscribing unsubscribing. A message that I sent later posted, and this message didn't, and so I'm assuming that it won't post, and so I'm re-sending it: I like Voter's Choice for

Re: [EM] 3 candidates, few voters, 0-info

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Moore
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Richard wrote: MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: It seems to me that the above-the-mean strategy is still valid no matter how few voters there are, as long as there are only 3 candidates. Then can you explain the following? I posted this at the end of my previous

Re: [EM] Scale Votes

2001-03-07 Thread DEMOREP1
In CR all of the voters get to rate all of the candidates. In your example only two voters rated A, and only one voter rated B, so we cannot tell if there was a winner or not. (This reflects a common misconception about the validity of CR.) --- D- The default vote is obviously minus 100. Votes