[EM] Remember Toby JL2

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Sun May 29 16:06:18 PDT 2011


Hi Juho,

--- En date de : Dim 29.5.11, Juho Laatu <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit :
> This is
> why I suggest that
> > you had better force voters to rank everyone in a
> margins method.
> 
> In som sense margins does this. Vote "B" gives the same
> result as half vote "B>A>C" and half vote
> "B>C>A" together. Or statistically the results are the
> same if all uncertain voters will flip a coin and vote
> either way.

Yes, margins makes truncation (and equal ranking) an *indistinct* 
strategy. It supposes that if we stop people from telling half-truths,
they'll just tell the whole truth. The "voters are just being lazy" 
theory, I guess.

Kevin



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