[EM] Does this method already have a name?

Forest W Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Mon May 7 15:57:24 PDT 2007


Ballots are ordinal with approval cutoffs.

The candidate with "Maximum Minimal Reactionary Approval" wins.

A candidate's "reactionary approval" relative to another candidate is 
the approval she would get if the approval cutoff were moved adjacent 
to (but not past) the other candidate's position in the ballot order on 
every ballot.

So each candidate's score is her minimum reactionary approval relative 
to the other candidates.  The candidate with the highest score wins.

It turns out that when rankings are complete this method is equivalent 
to the common versions of MinMax.

It doesn't get tripped up on Kevin's standard example against pure MMPO:

49 A
1 A=B
1 B=C
49 C

Does it satisfy the FBC?

Forest



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