[EM] Some unfortunately too strong Defensive Strategy Criterion

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Fri Apr 30 21:36:02 PDT 2004


Bart Ingles wrote:
> 
> So the likely outcome should be:
> 
> Voter 1:  AB
> Voter 2:  B
> Voter 3:  CA
> 
> Result:
> Tie between A and B.

So the overall social utility of the tie should be:
[(1/2 + 1/4) + (1/2) + (0 + 1/4)] / 3 = 1/2


For comparison, the overall social utility if one of the following was
the sole winner would be:
A wins:  1/2
B wins:  1/2
C wins:  1/3

So the tie between A and B seems oddly appropriate in terms of SU.



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