[EM] proposal: weighted pairwise comparison

[James Green-Armytage]

	Sorry, David, I think I misunderstood your question. See below.

David, you wrote:
>Thanks for putting my examples into your Election Calculator. One
>question though, how does it translate the cardinal ratings into Approval
>ballots?
>Your Election Calculator translates both examples into the Approval
>result:
>A 55
>B 100
>C 45
>Surely using the zero information strategy of  "approve all candidates
>whose cardinal rating  is greater than the mean cardinal rating" the
>second example should give the Approval result:
>A 55
>B 15
>C 45
>David Gamble

I wrote:
>	There are two versions of my proposal. The primary version uses cardinal
>ratings ballots and the secondary version uses approval cutoffs. In the
>cardinal ratings version, cardinal ratings are never converted into
>approval ballots. Brian Olson's calculator implements the cardinal
>ratings version, and hence approval ballots do not come into play. I hope
>that answers your question.

	I'm guessing now that your question wasn't actually about my method but
about the ratings calculator in general. Sorry to butt in like that. I see
now that Brian can answer your question but I cannot.

best,
James