[EM] Efforts to improve on CR's strategy

Ken Johnson kjinnovation at earthlink.net
Tue May 18 07:04:04 PDT 2004


>Message: 2
>From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Kevin=20Venzke?= <stepjak at yahoo.fr>
>
>Ken,
>...
>I did not test Plurality.  I think it is very strange that you found it to 
>be better than Approval.  ...
>
>Kevin Venzke
>stepjak at yahoo.fr
>
>
>Message: 3
>From: bql at bolson.org
>...
>That's odd. Approval turned out pretty well in my sims.
>...
>Brian Olson
>http://bolson.org/
>
>  
>
Here's an example of the kind of Bad Thing that can happen with 
Approval. There are 3 candidates (A, B, C) and 10 voters. I am using 
signed CR's in the range -1 to 1 (CR>0: approve, CR<0: disapprove). 
Following are the sincere CR's:
9 voters: A(-1), B(0.1), C(1)
1 voter: A(-1), B(1), C(-0.1)
avg CR: A(-1), B(0.19), C(0.89)
approval: A(0), B(10), C(9)
plurality: A(0), B(1), C(9)

Ken Johnson






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