[EM] Remember Toby

[robert bristow-johnson]

On May 28, 2011, at 3:41 PM, S Sosnick wrote:

>
> On 27-May-2011, Jameson Quinn, wrote, "I agree [with Juho Laatu].   
> If minimax is twice as likely
> to be adopted, because it's simpler, and gives >95% of the advantage  
> vs. plurality of the
> theoretically-best Condorcet methods, then it *is* the best.  And  
> besides, if we try to get
> consensus on which is the absolutely best completion method, then  
> almost by
> definition, we're going to end up arguing in circles (cycles?)."
>
> I also agree.  More noteworthy, however, is that Nicolaus Tideman  
> does, too.  At page 242 of
> "Collective Decisions and Voting" (2006), he says, "If voters and  
> vote counters have only a slight
> tolerance for complexity, the maximin rule is the one they would  
> reasonably choose."

will minimax of margins decide differently than ranked pairs?  if the  
cycle has only three candidates, it seems to me that it must be  
equivalent to ranked pairs.

is there any good reason to use minimax of winning votes (clipped at  
zero) over minimax using margins?  it seems to me that a candidate  
pairing where Candidate A just squeaks by Candidate B, but where a  
lotta people vote should have less weight than a pairing where one  
candidate creams the other, but fewer voters weighed in on it.

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