[EM] Help naming a new method

[Andy Jennings]

Hi Kristen,

I'm having trouble understanding what your goal is in re-posting the first
four paragraphs from this April post of mine.
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2011-April/027194.html

Is this some new kind of mailing list spam?  Or did you have some questions
about the method?

In any case, thank you for bringing up this method again.  I still like it
and like to discuss it.  I still haven't decided whether to call it "mutual
median" or "chiastic voting" or something else.

~ Andy



On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Kristen Eisenberg <
kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I have a new voting method and I think I need some help naming it. Let me
> say, first of all, that I admit it may be too complicated for use by the
> general public. It's a score aggregating method, like Score Voting.
>
>
> Each voter scores each candidate on a scale of 0-100. Each candidate's
> votes are aggregated independently, with their societal score given by
> finding the largest number, x, such that x percent of the voters gave that
> candidate a grade of x or higher.
>
>
> So a candidate where 71% of the people gave a grade of 71 or higher (but
> the
> same can't be said of 71+epsilon) will get a final score of 71.
>
>
> It shares a strategy-resistance property with the median that any voter
> whose score was above the societal score, if he were allowed to change his
> vote, could do nothing to raise the societal score. (Also, a voter whose
> score was below the societal score could do nothing to lower the societal
> score.) This means that if you're only grading one candidate (e.g. choosing
> an approval rating for the sitting president), then there is a strong
> incentive for everyone to submit an honest vote.
>
>
> Kristen Eisenberg
>
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