<p dir="ltr">Heaving only 2 rating-levels means that, ordinarily, strategy can't importantly improve on sincerity.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But, if chicken dilemma becomes a problem, 3-Slot ICT's middle rating avoids the problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Michael Ossipoff</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 4, 2016 5:53 PM, "Forest Simmons" <<a href="mailto:fsimmons@pcc.edu">fsimmons@pcc.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>How about Grade style ballots as in Majority Judgment, but simple MUMA style counting:<br><br></div>Each voter assigns grades A, B, C, D, or F to each of the candidates. A blank counts as an E, between D and F.<br><br></div>Elect the pairwise winner between the candidate with the greatest number of votes above C (pretty good), and the greatest number of votes above D (not too bad)<br><br></div>It seems to me that this simple method would be even more apt than MJ to elicit sincere ballots. In fact, if the pretty good (PG) and not too bad (NTB) marks were not strictly required to be consistent with the grade marks, then there would be no incentive to vote insincere grades or to collapse preferences beyond the built in resolution constraint corresponding to only six levels.<br><br></div><div>It would be fun to see if voters did vote their grades consistent with their PG and NTB marks when not required to.<br></div><div><br></div>For more resolution in the pairwise comparison allow grades with plus (+) or minus (-) attached.<br><br></div>And while we're proposing simple methods, don't forget basic single winner asset voting as first advocated by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll).<br><br></div>Forest<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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