[EM] Re: completing Condorcet using ratings information
Chris Benham
chrisbenham at bigpond.com
Mon Jun 21 09:47:08 PDT 2004
James,
Thanks for taking an interest in the comparison between your new
"weighted pairwise" (magnitudes) and my older "compressing ranks" ideas
for completing Condorcet. Unfortunately, when it comes to using
high-resolution ratings ballots to combine ranking and rating, these
two are far from the only obvious candidates.
Here is another that is fairly simple and intuitive. High-resolution
ratings ballots. Inferring ranking from rating, eliminate the non-members
of the Schwartz-set. Of the remaining candidates, each ballot approves
those candidates rated above average. Eliminate the candidate
with the lowest approval-score. Begin again, and so on, until one
candidate remains.
This and the compressing ranks method have in common that they are
Condorcet methods that try to rely on the ratings as little as possible.
Your example:
24: A 100 > B 1 > C 0
24: A 100 > C 1 > B 0
22: B 100 > C 99 > A 0
4: B 100 > C 1 > A 0
1: B 100 > A 1 > C 0
22: C 100 > B 99 > A 0
3: C 100 > A 1 > B 0
100 ballots. A>B>C>A, all 51-49.
All candidates are in the Schwartz set, so the approval-scores are:
A: 48
B: 49
C: 47
C has the lowest approval-score , so C is eliminated. Then A pairwise
beats B, so A wins.
Regarding my "Condorcet completed by compressing ranks method", you
wrote (Sat.Jun.12):
>Note: I would also suggest modifying the proposal such that the ranks are
>not compressed unless there is no candidate not beaten by a majority.
>(That is, I think that if there is a candidate who is beaten pairwise, but
>only by a minority, and every other candidate is beaten by a majority, it
>helps strategy-wise to elect that minority-beaten candidate without
>further adjustments to the rankings.)
>
CB: I hate this idea. In general I dislike "Winning Votes", but concede
that it "helps strategy-wise" in plain ranked-ballot Condorcet.
I don't think it mixes well with ratings. I think that in the
3-candidate cycle case, the fact that Compressing Ranks always picks the
most approved top-cycle candidate and your Weighted Pairwise
(Magnitudes) method can pick the least approved definitely counts.
Also your "Weighted Pairwise" method is more complicated and less intuitive.
Yet another method I prefer would be "Approval Margins".
High-resolution ratings ballots. Inferring ranking from rating,
eliminate the non-members of the Schwartz-set. Of the remaining
candidates, each ballot approves those candidates rated above average.
Then measure the "defeat strengths" by the differences in the candidates'
approval scores. On that basis pick the Ranked Pairs (or maybe some
other pairwise method at least as good) winner.
To take your example:
A>B 48-49 = -1
B>C 49-47 = +2
C>A 47-48 = +1
B wins.
Chris Benham
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