Bad Condorcet winners?

MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 16 17:33:05 PST 2001


Demorep said:

>It is not *average* utilities that are important.

Yeah it is. The average SU of a method is what determines what your
expectation is for future elections for which we don't yet know who
the candidates will be.

Worst-case SU wouldn't be important unless you could convincintly
argue that there was a serious danger that an unliked voter median
candidate would do irreparable damage or abolish demoncracy. That
isn't credible, and average SU is what matters.

Mike Ossipoff

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