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

[C.Benham]

On 12/20/2016 5:04 AM, Richard Lung wrote:

> 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.

But surely (in normal STV) the surpluses are distributed before there 
are any exclusions, so wouldn't the surplus votes of the "very popular" 
candidate save the "allied" candidate
from exclusion?

Chris Benham


On 12/20/2016 5:04 AM, Richard Lung wrote:
>
> 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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