[EM] MMPO and Symmetric Completion

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

Jameson,

good idea and valuable comments.

However, I'm not sure that regret is the right word.  I regret something after I make a bad choice.  I resent 
something when I make a good choice that is over-ridden by somebody with the power to do so.

I suggest "Least Resentment Voting," LRV.

Forest

----- Original Message -----
From: Jameson Quinn 
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 4:46 pm
Subject: Re: [EM] MMPO and Symmetric Completion
To: fsimmons at pcc.edu
Cc: election-methods at lists.electorama.com

> >
> >
> > Now let's come up with a good name for this MMPO with partial 
> symmetric> completion. Actually we
> > need a good technical name as well as a catchy name for public 
> proposal.>
> 
> This is indeed a good method. In simple parlance, you want the 
> candidatewho is least disliked against any other candidate, 
> counting equal bottom as
> half-disliked. So I suggest "Least Regret Voting" as a name.
> 
> Unfortunately, this philosophy -- choosing the least-worst -- is less
> intuitively-appealing to most people than majoritarian 
> philosophies. If I
> didn't know how the two systems worked, I'd probably be more 
> inclined to
> like a system called "Majority Judgment" than a system called 
> "Least Regret
> Voting".
> 
> (Actually, even knowing their content, I'd still probably pick 
> MJ; though
> I'd pick LRV if you modified it slightly by using a ballot with 
> meaningfulrating categories, which is perfectly compatible with 
> the system. I'll
> still be pushing MJ and SODA over rated-LRV, though, until 
> there's at least
> a few dozen people in the world not on this list who've heard of LRV.
> Anyway, regardless of which methods I support, I still think 
> it's a pity
> that the naming has an inherent bias towards MJ over LRV; the systems
> should win or lose on their merits, not on their names.)
> 
> As for a technical name... I guess I'd choose "BSC-MMPO",
> Bottom-symmetrically-completed etc. But I'm one who's perfectly 
> happy to
> call MJ, "MJ", rather than "Cardinal Median//Median Drop Median" 
> or some
> such technically-descriptive name. So I don't really care about the
> technical names.
> 
> Jameson
> 
> ps. I know that BR fans might object to the different definition of
> "regret" implicit in calling it LRV; but I was never a fan of 
> the "BR" name
> myself so I can't say I worry about that. BR is a great idea 
> but, I feel, a
> poor name.
>