[EM] Declaration wording refinement

[Richard Fobes]

The descriptions in the Declaration are not intended to be a replacement 
for getting a full explanation from Wikipedia or some other source.  The 
descriptions and "advantages" presented in the Declaration cannot 
accomplish what it takes an entire Wikipedia article to accomplish.

I too had to look up the fuller description of Majority Judgment.

I think that what is most important is that the single-winner method (or 
methods) that you most strongly support are included in the Declaration.

Richard Fobes


On 10/13/2011 4:45 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote:
> Suggestion,
>
> The statement needs to be understandable to folks who do not have
> familiarity with how these alternatives work.
>
> For instance, *I* do not understand the description for majority
> judgment where it says:
>
>      * Majority Judgment uses score ballots to collect the fullest
> preference information, then elects the candidate who gets the best
> score from half or more of the voters (the greatest median score). If
> there is a tie for first place, the method repeatedly removes one
> median score from each tied candidate until the tie is broken.
>
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>
> Thus, I don't even know if I support this method.  How is "one median
> score from each tied candidate" to be removed selected.  This sentence
> seems inconsistent with the first sentence IMO. i.e. it seems possible
> that there are two different definitions of median score being used.
>
> I do not understand how this method works from its description.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kathy
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