[EM] median rating / lower quartile

[Fan de Condorcet]

James,

You wrote:

>Given sincere votes, this may be interesting, but if votes are not
>necessarily sincere, it would be quite possible for all candidates to
>receive a social utility of 0. That is, the lower quartile feature makes
>the method into a kind of 3/4 supermajority method.
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>However, scoring candidates by the median rather than the mean might be an
>improvement on standard cardinal ratings. Has this been discussed before?
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Yes.  I once happened to stumble across an archived message, originally 
posted by Rob Lanphier, in which he suggested just this.  It wasn't long 
before he shot down his own idea in a follow-up message.

http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-April/001603.html

http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-April/001607.html

>my best,
>James
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