[EM] Regarding the poll

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Thu Feb 12 03:13:01 PST 2004


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

>
> If a ranking doesn't specify an Approval cutoff, what should the default be?
>

I nominate default approval cutoff at (or just above) the median of the
ranked (non-truncated) candidates.

Someone else might as well nominate default approval just below top rank.

No harm in counting both ways since we already have a dozen other ways of
picking the winner.

Forest




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