Fwd: [EM] Query for Approval advocates

[Eric Gorr]

At 5:16 PM -0400 9/9/03, Kislanko at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/9/03 3:57:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
>eric at ericgorr.net writes:
>
>>B *IS* preferred by a majority over both A & C
>Only in pairwise compaisons between B<>A, and B<>C. But that wasn't 
>the election.
>
>>In the contest between B & A, only 85 people choose to participate.
>>Of those 85, > 50% preferred B.
>The voters were not choosing to participate in pairwise comparisons 
>between each pair of candidates. They were TRYING to express their 
>prefences. There was no "contest between B & A". There was an 
>election that involved A, B, and C.
>
>>In the contest between B & C only 65 people choose to  participate.
>>Of those 65, > 50% preferred B.
>Again, there was no contest between B & C.

Yes, there was.

The contest took place in the individual voter rankings.

The voter had to decide whether they preferred B over C or C over B 
or viewed them as being equal and therefore placed the decision on 
those who saw a difference to decide which one is better. While doing 
this, they were also accounting for their viewpoint concerning A and 
how A compared to both B & C, etc.

In the case of B vs A, 20 people viewed them as being equivalent.

In the case of B vs C, 40 people viewed them as being equivalent.

(Note, there were 105 voters involved in the election...not the 
normal 100, in case people wonder why the numbers do not add up to 
100.)