[EM] Any method can punish truncation
Richard Moore
rmoore4 at home.com
Sat Mar 31 11:14:45 PST 2001
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> ...and if you truncate higher then you lower your expectation. That
> truncation is punished by Borda. With any method, you worsen your outcome if
> you don't support a needed compromise.
>
> I didn't mean that with every method all truncation is punished.
> I meant that, with any method, you'll often regret truncation.
That clears it up for me, but you are talking about a voter making a
bad choice of truncation; in other words, using the wrong strategy.
Of course, all methods punish poor strategy.
-- Richard
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