N/P Scales

[David Catchpole]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Mundane example-
> 
> A group of folks want to go out together.
> 
> Proposed choices- movie, sports event, bar, etc.
> 
> Some folks may not care about certain choices- neither for or against.

However, what about the people who are indifferent between movies and a
sports event and between bar and a fourth item, and who rank the first
two, although indifferent between them, above the latter two? How can you
rank all options "0"?

> 
> How many average folks on the planet daily think about such buzz words and 
> phrases as "utility" and "probabilistically weighted mean of outcomes", etc.  
> ?
> 
> Getting rid of totally dangerous simple Plurality will not be done by getting 
> bogged down in such words and phrases in talking about election method 
> reforms with average citizens (who never read mumbo-jumbo political science/ 
> socio-economic professional/ university journals and internet articles 
> written by Profs and wantabee Profs).
> 
> 

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