[EM] Centrist vs. non-Centrists (was A distance based method)

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

----- Original Message -----
From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm 
> fsimmons at pcc.edu wrote:
...
> There may also be another scenario where Majority Judgement (or 
> median 
> ratings, for that matter) would do better than ranked methods. 
> If it's 
> possible for the voters to agree on what, say, "Good" means 
> (comparability of utilities), then MJ might extract usable 
> cardinal 
> information from the voters, while the strategy resistance makes 
> the 
> cardinal information much less prone to the sort of Approval-
> reduction 
> that you would see in Range. If one holds certain assumptions 
> that make 
> cardinal methods useful at all, then MJ could well be strategy 
> resistant 
> enough that it would do better than Range*.
> 
> B&L spends quite a bit of their paper on the claim that the 
> voters *do* 
> agree on what the different categories mean, and so that there 
> is 
> comparability so that the cardinal information can be used.

Instead of asking voters for "utility" values, ask them to rate the candidates on a scale of zero to 100%, 
where rating candidate X at 37% means that you think that 37% of the time candidate X would vote the 
same way that you would vote if you were there representing yourself.