[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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