[EM] MJ, Bucklin reply

[Jameson Quinn]

2012/2/22 MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com>

>  Jameson:
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> 012/2/21 MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com>
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>  I don't oppose MJ. I like Approval, and MJ is Approval. ....
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> That's the obvious first improvement on Approval. Sure, MTA, MCA &
> ABucklin improve on Approval too, slightly, by adding
> more levels of majority-rule protection.
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> MJ is a Bucklin method too, and has exactly the same "levels of
> majority-rule protection" as these other methods.
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> 1. But my point was that Bucklin's improvement over Approval is
> insignificant compared to that of Optionally-Conditional-Approval (AOC),
> MTAOC, MCAOC, and AOCBucklin.
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> 2. So you're saying that if we count an MJ election by ABucklin as well
> (we infer each ballots ranking from the order of its ratings),
> the two methods will always get another answer?
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Not at all. I'm saying that "levels of majority-rule protection" does not
require rankings; it works fine with ratings.

Jameson

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