[EM] Seven +/- Two

Roy royone at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 21 11:36:34 PDT 2001


Forest Simmons wrote:
> Very astute observation. In elections with more than twenty or
> thirty candidates, there would have to be something to fall back on
> if the statistics didn't come through for us.

How about:  at any stage, if no candidates are eliminated, we warp 
right to the Approval stage?

It's conceivable that an election could have 20 or 30 candidates, but 
in that case, I think the problem of information overloaded voters 
dwarfs the problem of evaluating their preferences.





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