[EM] Jameson: Regarding preference criteria

MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 22 14:24:19 PST 2011



> Are you sure? Say, in Plurality, x gets more votes than anyone else. S/he
> wins as a result.
>
> With those ballots, it could be that for every y not x, no fewer people
> preferred x to y than y to
> x and everyone voted sincerely. Maybe people who voted for x didn't have
> any preferences other than for x over
> everyone else. Therefore, their voting was sincere. The ballots are
> consistent with that.
>
> So, what you said is not equivalent to the criterion that you quoted above.
>

Are you seriously claiming that a method passes a criterion because it
passes in one case? 

[endquote]

Ok, aside from the question of whether your added wording changes the criterion's meaning,
the added wording is unnecessary. It serves no purpose. You didn't say how your pedant could
find fault with my CC.





 		 	   		  


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