[Election-Methods] [english 95%] Re: [english 94%] Re: method design challenge +new method AMP

[Juho]

On May 9, 2008, at 0:29 , raphfrk at netscape.net wrote:

> There needs to be some system for providing an incentive for people  
> to give their honest ratings.  A random system with trading seems  
> like a reasonable solution.

I see elections that elect different candidates with different  
probabilities as a special class of election methods. Therefore also  
for this challenge I'm interested in finding best solutions for both  
cases, probability based and deterministic election of the candidate  
that is considered best. (Roughly the question is if one wants to  
give Stalin and other unwanted fellows a small probability to become  
elected or a zero probability.)

It would be good to have methods that do not necessarily elect the  
majority winners but are more compromise oriented. And it would be  
good to have methods that are able to use (relatively) sincere  
ratings as input.

Juho





	
	
		
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