<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I had a look at your system - <A href="http://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods@lists.electorama.com/msg07066.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods@lists.electorama.com/msg07066.html</A> - I think I might have to look at it again to get it! But one thing about percentiles. As I understand it, people often disagree about how to calculate percentiles. The one I agree with on here - <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile</A> - is the one recommended by NIST. Where P is the percentile and N is the population, the ranked posistion would be P/100 * (N+1). Does your system have an inbuilt assumption about this?<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Toby Pereira <tdp201b@yahoo.co.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> electorama list <election-methods@lists.electorama.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat, 9 July, 2011 0:27:12<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [EM] Median-based Proportional Representation<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I've told Warren to change that, and he hasn't given me a clear criterion for what I have to do so he will. I've created a system called AT-TV which is PR and reduces to a median-based system in the single-winner case. It's Bucklin-like, in that there is a falling approval threshold, and when a candidate gets enough approvals to be elected (a Droop quota) they are, which "uses up" those votes (except for the excess). So in a one-winner case, it's based on 50th percentile (median), but in, for instance, a 3-winner case, it would be (pseudo-)maximizing the elected candidates' 75th-percentile score, not their 50th-percentile. I think this is the appropriate thing to do in the multi-winner "median" case.
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