[EM] nominations

[Richard Moore]

Whether or not they do well, having them on the list means that there will
be a broader range of voter utilities which (in my opinion) makes the 
contest
more interesting. So I'll play the devil's advocate and nominate all 
three of
them.

Richard


MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> 
> Richard wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a race between all the good methods. But if we really want it
> 
> to be interesting shouldn't IRV, Borda, and Plurality be on the list as
> well?
> 
> I reply:
> 
> Of course you could nominate them, but no doubt they won't do well,
> especially if even their advocates don't nominate them. I suspect
> the reason why IRV, for instance, hasn't been nominated is because
> IRV advocates know that it wouldn't do well, and they'd much rather
> that it not be mentioned in this poll than have it receive a really
> poor showing in the poll.
> 
> Of course it would be interesting to find out how IRV, Borda, &
> Pluarality do. But it's also perfectly ok to take their non-nomination
> by their advocates  as
> a sort of surrender.  Should we accept IRV's surrender, or should
> we nominate it to show how it will do? It's up to you, because
> anything can be nominated.  Either is fine with me. Non-nomination
> would look very much like a bad poll-showing for IRV, it seems
> to me. It goes without saying that nominating a method doesn't
> mean that you like it.
> 
> By the way, I want to nominate an additional method: SD.
> 
> SD stands for Sequential Dropping. SSD is a refinement of SD.
> 
> SD says:
> 
> Drop the weakest defeat that's in a cycle. Repeat till there's an
> unbeaten candidate.
> 
> [end of definition]
> 
> Markus has pointed out that SD can be nonmonotonic. But that doesn't
> disqualify it as something to fight IRV with.
> 
> What SD has to recommend it is the fact that it's the simplest,
> most briefly-defined, method that completely dominates IRV in
> criteria.
> 
> As I said, CR has been nominated too.
> 
> Mike Ossipoff
> 
> 
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