[EM] Discover Magazine article

[Bart Ingles]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bart Ingles wrote:
> > My thought while reading it was, "Gee, I'm glad to see someone found a
> > legitimate use for Borda!"
> 
> I think that was the most interesting part.  I wonder how the various
> Condorcet methods would hold up in handwriting recognition, etc.  It may
> be interesting to track down these organizations and see if they've tried
> it.  If Borda does better, it may provide some evidence that "symmetry" is
> an important criterion.

Just a guess, but I'd say there wouldn't be much measurable difference,
since the two seem to give similar results.  Borda's main advantage is
probably ease of implementation.

The scientific applications might naturally return ordinal rankings for
the candidate options, otherwise the voting system could be more
flexible about assigning weights to votes (since strategy is not a
problem).  Whether this would be an improvement or not would depend on
the application.

Bart