[EM] High Resolution Inferred Approval version of ASM

[Richard Lung]

Hello Toby,
Give me a little credit. I am well aware of the distinction you make. 
Which implies I think it is irrelevant. Whether the voters control the 
distribution of weighting among the candidates, those scores, like in a 
points system, will still count against each other. Something to do with 
Occams razor.

R. L.

On 25/06/2019 08:21, Toby Pereira wrote:
> Richard
>
> The drawback you talk about applies to ranked-ballot systems that 
> convert ranks into points, such as Borda because of the assumptions 
> made about what a voter's positional rank of a candidate means. 
> However, it is not relevant to score/range voting where the voters 
> pick the scores for each candidate themselves. There is no such 
> assumption made in score voting.
>
> Score voting may have other drawbacks, but they are not the same as 
> the drawbacks of Borda. They are completely different methods with 
> different philosophies and should not be conflated.
>
> "But the point is they are all assumptions. This is the basic drawback 
> to score voting systems" is a statement made as a result of such a 
> conflation and is wrong.
>
> Toby
>
>     On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 19:39, Richard Lung
>     <voting at ukscientists.com> wrote:
>
>     Thankyou for asking.
>     It's standard statistics. I refered to it occasionally over the
>     years.
>     To give a more representative summary of classes of data, they may
>     be weighted. If no accurate information is available, the weights
>     to respective classes may be assumed. Hence Borda method fits the
>     statistical description, weighting in arithmetic progression. JFS
>     Ross, Elections and Electors, 1955, suggested that the weighting
>     would be more realistic using the geometric mean. This would be
>     weighting in geometric progression. The British broadcaster Robin
>     Day favored weighting in harmonic progression!
>     But the point is they are all assumptions. This is the basic
>     drawback to score voting systems.
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