Finding the probable best candidate

[Steve Barney]

Forest:

Most preferred according to the information in the ordinal preference ballots. 

SB

--- In election-methods-list at y..., Forest Simmons <fsimmons at p...> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Steve Barney wrote:
> 
> > Yes, of course we have limited information by which to determine the
group's
> > best candidate, but what if we focus on nothing but the information which
is
> > contained in an ordinal preference ballot? 
[...]
> > In that case, the "best" candidate
> > may be defined as the one who is most preferred according to the
information
> > contained in fully ranked ordinal preference ballots.
> 
> Most preferred according to which measure of preference?  The preferences
> are given as vector valued functions.  For maximization, those vectors
> have to be turned into scalars.  There are infinitely many different ways
> of doing this, each yielding a different measure of preference.
> 
[...]
> Forest


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