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<pre><i><br>Jameson:<br><br>I'd said:<br><br>> My current favorite is MDD, ER-Bucklin (whole) (where ER-Bucklin(whole)
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</i>><i> as in the electowicki).
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</i><br>You replied:<br><br>This is very similar to Majority Judgment. The advantages of the latter are:
1. There's a book about it.
2. There's a wikipedia article about it.
3. Balinski and Laraki (the inventors) make a good argument that methods
like this should use words, not numbers, as rating categories, to encourage
a common understanding of meanings among voters; and that this will improve
results.
<br>[endquote]<br><br>I'll check its wikipedia article and its electowiki article if there is one.<br><br>Majority Judgement--Isn't that the Score Voting method that elects the candidate<br>with the highest median score? It seems to me that that method shares much of the<br>extreme-rating incentive of ordinary Score Voting (the one that just sums each <br>candidate's scores).<br><br>I'd said:<br><br>><i> It's the Cadillac of FBC methods.
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</i>><i> Is there an FBC-complying method meets UP and SDSC and that does better by
</i>><i> other criteria?
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</i>><i> Is there an FBC-complying method that doesn't fail in the Approval
</i>><i> bad-example?
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</i><br>You replied:<br><br>SODA voting. As I've said about 5 times already.
<br>[endquote]<br><br>Yes, but, as I was saying, I've encountered resistance when bringing up methods involving<br>proxies (delegates. <br><br>Of course it doesn't hurt to ask people, but I didn't have much success with such methods in<br>the past.<br><br>Mike Ossipoff<br>
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