[EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

[Kevin Venzke]

 --- Dave Ketchum <davek at clarityconnect.com> a écrit : 
> Also seems to me that "low-utility candidate" gets misused:
>       ABC says that this voter assigns most utility to A and something 
> less - perhaps negative - to C.  Voter has placed B between - PERHAPS 
> almost as positive as A; PERHAPS almost as negative as C.
>       Looking at the initial estimates above, A and C could perhaps be 
> rated as low-utility with some voters rating A or C as high-utility and 
> others giving each the opposite rating.  B could possibly be rated as 
> moderate-utility, for noone has assigned B last choice.

If you don't think "utility" is a useful idea, you should just say that,
rather than redefine it to mean what no one else is talking about.

In the scenario this involves, A and C ON AVERAGE had quite a bit more utility
(almost 50) than B (over 15).  That "no one has assigned B last choice" is
completely irrelevant to utility.  It's not about relative preference.

It is obvious that the A and C supporters would have to agree that B is
low-utility for them to have any agreement.  They don't have to agree that
B is the worst.


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