[EM] Better Than Expectation Approval Voting (2nd try readable format)

Jobst Heitzig heitzig-j at web.de
Fri Dec 23 23:32:14 PST 2011


Forest wrote:
> Now for the interesting part:  if you use this strategy on your approval ballot, the expected number of 
> candidates that you would approve is simply the sum of the probabilities of your approving the individual 
> candiates, i.e. the total score of all the candidates on your score ballot divided by the maximum possible 
> score (100 in the example).  Suppose that there are n candidates, and that the expected number that you 
> will approve is k.  Then instead of going through the random number rigamarole, just approve your top k 
> candidates.

So we could justifiably call this strategy the "honest" approval
strategy, since if preferences are sufficiently mixed and all voters use
this strategy, the outcome is the same as the one with sincere Range
ballots, i.e., the option with the highest total rating!

Happy Holidays from Jobst to all of you!



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