[EM] The scales of measurment determine most effective elections.

[Richard Lung]

To all,

Statistical tests are judged for their accuracy by how far they follow 
the scales of measurment (Sidney Siegal: Non-parametric statistics for 
the behavioral sciences). The four scales can also be applied to 
elections. (Later I found out that elections are statistical tests, that 
is in the sense that my innovation of Binomial STV is such). There is 
only one election system that follows all four scales, and that is 
transferable voting. Ranked choice or preference voting are indeed 
essential to an accurate election system: that covers the second scale: 
the ordinal scale. Proportional counting is also essential: that covers 
the fourth scale: the ratio scale.

Strategic voting remains only a residual problem with STV. But it can 
occur in real life elections where a very popular candidate can take 
away most of the first preferences of an allied candidate, subjecting 
the ally to possible premature exclusion. Binomial STV solves that 
problem by making the exclusion count rational, as well as the election 
count.

from
Richard Lung.

-- 
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