[EM] Re: paradigms...

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Rob!

you wrote:
>> I don't think we should force voters with only partial 
>> information to either not vote or distort their preferences.
>> The former would waste valuable information and violate 
>> equality, the latter would unnecessarily introduce "noise"
>> into the information we get from the ballots.
> 
> Well for the former I really just don't see any benefit the system will get 
> out of having you vote when you don't have enough knowledge to make a 
> decision.  

Who says I don't have enough information to make a decision when my
preferences are A>C and B>D? I certainly don't. Quite contrary: Of
course that information suffices to vote! And I want that this
information will be taken into account by the system without me having
to pretend other preferences such as A>D which I don't have!

> As for the latter, the only effect of noice that has been introduced would be 
> to break what would otherwise be a tie.  

You can't be serious here. When only 25% of the voters can distinguish
between some pair of voters A,B and you force the other 75% of the
voters to express some fantasy preference about A,B which they don't
feel, then how accurate you think the outcome will be? Of course such
noise is something we must avoid by all means!

Yours, Jobst