oops, there were a few mistakes in what I sent, because I hit "send" prematurely:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>They publish their data in a singularly useless format, but here's what I see in the tables for approval:</div><div>without polls:</div><div>minority wins: 5/48 </div><div>minority in 2-way tie: 7/48</div>
<div>minority in 3-way tie: 2/48</div><div>Total minority expected wins: 19% (was 26% for approval)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I meant, 26% for plurality. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div><div>with polls:</div><div>MiW: 2/48</div><div>Mi2T: 10/48</div><div>Mi3T: 0</div><div>TMiEW: 30% (17% for approval)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, I meant 17% for plurality. Also, for approval, the total by my count of the data table is only 14.6%. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I got the 30% number because there is an EVIL error in this paper. It says that for approval with polls, "the minority candidate achieved only 14.6 victories (out of 48 chances, counting two-way ties as 1/2-victories and three-way ties as 1/3-victories)." Obviously, I realized that you can't get 14.6 by adding wholes, halfs, and thirds, but I assumed that they'd just improperly rounded 14.667. But no, the 14.6 was a correctly rounded percentage for 7/48. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I wonder if I should write to Forsythe and let him know...</div><div><br></div><div>Jameson</div></div>