<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Kathy, yes the Borda winner assigns r points to the (n-r)th<br>ranked candidate.  It's a method with important problems.<br><br>Robert: yes, that was the point, a sort of<br>Condorcet:Borda::median:mean, if you like.  There is no<br>new method or algorithm here.<br><br>Kristofer: yes, it is a very simple observation.  Your comments<br>about burial are very interesting, and show how <br>we might be able to apply analysis of (one of) Condorcet <br>or Borda methods to the other.<br><br>Your way of passing from median to mean, I'm not sure<br>I understood completely.  Is it something like this?<br><br>- median<br>- mean of central 5%<br>- mean of central 10%<br>- etc<br><br>where "central 5%" would mean that you discard the 47.5%<br>highest and the 47.5% lowest values (with multiplicity<br>of course), and when these don't give whole
 numbers,<br>interpolate linearly.  Is this right?<br><br><br>--- El <b>dom, 9/1/11, election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com <i><election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com></i></b> escribió:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com <election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com><br>Asunto: Election-Methods Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6<br>Para: election-methods@lists.electorama.com<br>Fecha: domingo, 9 de enero, 2011 21:01<br><br><div class="plainMail">Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to<br>    <a ymailto="mailto:election-methods@lists.electorama.com" href="/mc/compose?to=election-methods@lists.electorama.com">election-methods@lists.electorama.com</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>    <a
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