[EM] Smith//Score ? normalization

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Mon Jan 24 15:29:52 PST 2022


Hi Kristofer,

Le lundi 24 janvier 2022, 16:46:06 UTC−6, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at t-online.de> a écrit :
> That gives me an idea. How about Smith//Lp-cumulative?
> 
> That is, first remove everybody who's not part of the Smith set.
> Renormalize all ballots to have unit p-norm. Then greatest score wins.
> It probably isn't monotone, but the renormalization should mitigate at
> least some of the Burr dilemma problems of plain Range.

I guess that you should rescale, not normalize. What if I rate both A and B
10/10 each and they are both in the Smith set? Smith//Score would treat me
better than that, I guess.

Kevin


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