[EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

[Dave Ketchum]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote:

>  --- 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.

So utility has SOME KIND of value which i have demonstrated I do not 
understand.  How about letting me in on the secret.
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