[EM] Majority-Judgement using adjectives versus alphabetical scales versus numerical ranges.

[Richard Fobes]

On 12/9/2012 9:12 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
 > ...
 > 2012/12/8 ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <Walabio at macosx.com <mailto:Walabio at macosx.com>
 > ...
 >              ¡That is so last week!  I wish to find a way to merge
 >     Score-Voting and Majority-Judgement into something even better.
 >
 > In order to find something better, we would at least need to know what's
 > wrong with what we have. There seems to be a lot of disagreement about
 > that point; smart people can't agree on whether Score or MJ is better.
 > So I think research is in order before we tear off and design 15 new
 > systems.

As I see it:

* Advantage of Majority-Judgement (MJ): Makes it (relatively compared to 
score and approval methods) more difficult to vote strategically.

* Advantage of score ballots: Collect the greatest amount of information 
from the voter.

Combining those two advantages could yield a better method.  I encourage 
Ŭalabio to explore that possibility.

Yet I would recommend adding yet another advantage, namely the ability 
to fully rank all the choices.  As I've said before, credibility for the 
correctness of the most popular choice is undermined if the method 
cannot also identify the second-most popular choice, and so on down to 
the least-popular choice.

Richard Fobes



On 12/9/2012 9:12 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>
> 2012/12/8 ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <Walabio at macosx.com <mailto:Walabio at macosx.com>>
>
>              2012:12-08T08:30:24Z, Kristofer Munsterhjelm:
>
>      >       On 12/08/2012 06:19 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote:
>
>      >>      1.
>
>      >>      This is my preferred range:
>
>      >>      Negative -99 to positive +99
>
>      >       The ponies already objected to your preferred range, and I
>     think their objection has validity. If they find it too hard to find
>     the right rating between -99 and +99, then they'll consider the
>     method bad however you put it. Again, RBJ has voiced the same point
>     here on the list: "Range asks for too much, Approval asks for too
>     little".
>
>              ¡That is so last week!  I wish to find a way to merge
>     Score-Voting and Majority-Judgement into something even better.
>
> In order to find something better, we would at least need to know what's
> wrong with what we have. There seems to be a lot of disagreement about
> that point; smart people can't agree on whether Score or MJ is better.
> So I think research is in order before we tear off and design 15 new
> systems.
>
> Jameson
>
>
>
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