[EM] Methods

[Kevin Venzke]

Hi,

--- En date de : Dim 16.10.11, matt welland <matt at kiatoa.com> a écrit :
> > It has been shown, here, and in journal articles, that
> Approval will
> > soon home in on the CW. After a few
> > elecions. But "a few elections" can be a decade or
> more. We'd like
> > better results before that, and so
> 
> Does this prediction of "a few" elections account for polls
> typically
> done over and over prior to the election also being done
> with approval?
> My hunch is that Approval would have an immediate
> disruptive (in a good
> way) impact if the accompanying polls were also approval.

I completely agree with that. Swap "a few elections" with "a few 
polling iterations" and you should be where you wanted.

Approval's weakness is that it has to decide where the main contest is
prior to the vote. If there are few good options (i.e. any pair of
frontrunners leaves a large percentage of voters approving neither) or 
too many good options (i.e. several likely candidates for sincere CW) a
rank method, with its "higher resolution," may be able to fish out a
better result.

Kevin Venzke