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    <p>On 24/06/2019 3:13 am, John wrote:<br>
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        <div dir="auto">The single-election approach simply cannot
          provide a good election on its own for statistical reasons,
          and mixing bad rules into good rules won't make better rules.</div>
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    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">John,<br>
      <br>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">"Bad rules" give bad results.  Instead
      of this dismissive philosophical hand-waving, why don't you be so
      kind as to furnish an example where VIASME<br>
      gives a result that you consider to be bad (and where your
      specified preferred method gives a better result)?<br>
      <br>
      Chris Benham<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 24/06/2019 3:13 am, John wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">My point is mostly that score is useless, and
        hybrid methods are essentially trying to cover for Score by
        incorporating it while avoiding it's use in practice.  It's kind
        of like saying you have a new ear infection treatment where you
        use amoxicillin, and if that doesn't work you attach leeches to
        the earlobes.
        <div dir="auto"><br>
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        <div dir="auto">I have found that even e.g. Tideman's
          Alternative resisits burying, although I cover it with a
          robust candidate selection via a proportional primary election
          specifically to prevent formation of useful oligarchy
          coalitions.  Someone should quantify "resists burying" for all
          these methods one day.</div>
        <div dir="auto"><br>
        </div>
        <div dir="auto">Note that resistance doesn't mean burying does
          nothing.  In some 4-candidate examples, I had to inflate a
          candidate's voter base (to about 31% in one example) to
          eliminate the Condorcet winner, and the practical result was
          if 4% of voters whose first choice was the Condorcet winner
          preferred a candidate less-desirable to the burying coalition,
          that candidate was elected.  In simple terms, it produced
          worse results for the tactical voters than if they had voted
          honestly.</div>
        <div dir="auto"><br>
        </div>
        <div dir="auto">The single-election approach simply cannot
          provide a good election on its own for statistical reasons,
          and mixing bad rules into good rules won't make better rules.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 12:50 PM
          C.Benham <<a href="mailto:cbenham@adam.com.au"
            target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">cbenham@adam.com.au</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <p><br>
              On 22/06/2019 9:15 am, John wrote:<br>
            </p>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <div dir="auto">The great purported benefit of score
                systems is that more voters can rank A over B, yet due
                to the scores score can elect B:</div>
              <div dir="auto"><br>
              </div>
            </blockquote>
            John,<br>
            <br>
            Is every method that uses score ballots a "score system"?  
            My suggested VIASME method meets Smith and therefore avoids<br>
            the "benefit" you refer to.<br>
            <br>
            <blockquote type="cite">Wrapping it in a better system and
              using that information to make auxiliary decisions is
              still incorporating bad data.  Bad data is worse than no
              data.</blockquote>
            <br>
            As it relates to VIASME, I'm afraid you've lost me. A few
            years ago James Green-Armytage proposed a Condorcet method
            that asked the voters to both<br>
            rank the candidates (with equal ranking and truncation
            allowed) and also give each of them a high-resolution score
            and the ranking and the scoring <br>
            had to be consistent with each other.  If there was a
            Condorcet winner the scoring was ignored.<br>
            <br>
            Well it seems to me that the ranking is a redundant extra
            chore for the voter because it can be inferred from the
            scoring. That is what I propose for<br>
            VIASME.  The Green-Armytage method was called
            Cardinal-Weighted Pairwise  and was designed to try to
            resist Burial strategy. He had a simpler-ballot<br>
            version called Approval-Weighted Pairwise. One of the
            reasons I don't much like it is that it can elect a
            candidate that is pairwise-beaten by a more approved<br>
            candidate.<br>
            <p><a
class="m_-4020123439663180047m_-1234290807304547683moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Cardinal_pairwise"
                rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Cardinal_pairwise</a><br>
              <br>
              On 22/06/2019 8:57 am, Felix Sargent wrote: </p>
            <blockquote type="cite">That's not even going into what
              happens when a voter ranks an ordinal ballot
              strategically, placing "guaranteed losers" to 2nd and 3rd
              places in order to improve the chances of their first
              choice candidate (in IRV at least). </blockquote>
            <br>
            Felix, the Burial strategy you describe doesn't work in IRV
            because your 2nd and 3rd place preferences won't be counted
            if your  first choice candidate is still alive.<br>
            It is methods that fail Later-no-Help (such as all the
            Condorcet methods) that are vulnerable to that, some more
            than others.<br>
            <br>
            Chris Benham<br>
            <br>
            <div
              class="m_-4020123439663180047m_-1234290807304547683moz-cite-prefix">On
              22/06/2019 9:15 am, John wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="auto">The error comes when you make inferences.
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">The great purported benefit of score
                  systems is that more voters can rank A over B, yet due
                  to the scores score can elect B:</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">A:1.0 B:0.9 C:0.1</div>
                <div dir="auto">C:1.0 A:0.5 B:0.4</div>
                <div dir="auto">B:1.0 A:0.2 C:0.1</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">A=1.7, B=2.3, C=2.2</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Both B and C defeat A, despite A
                  defeating both ranked.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">If the first voter scores B as 0.7, C
                  wins.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Whenever a system attempts to use score
                  or its low-resolution Approval variant, it is relying
                  on this information.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">So why does this matter?</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">The voters are 100% certain and precise
                  that these are their votes:</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">A>B>C</div>
                <div dir="auto">C>A>B</div>
                <div dir="auto">B>A>C</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">We know A defeats B, A defeats C, and B
                  defeats C.  A is the Condorcet winner.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">For score votes, 1.0 is always 1.0. 
                  It's the first rank, the measure.  This is of course
                  another source of information distortion in cardinal
                  systems: how is the information meaningful as a
                  comparison between two voters?</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">How do you know 10 voters voting A first
                  at 1.0 aren't half as invested in A as 6 voters voting
                  B 1.0, this really A=5 B=6?</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Ten of us prefer strawberry to peanut
                  butter.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Six of us WILL DIE IF YOU OPEN A JAR OF
                  PEANUT BUTTER HERE.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Score systems claim to represent this
                  and capture this information, but they can't.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">(Notice I used the negative: that 1.0
                  vote is an expression of the damage of their
                  0.0-scored alternative.)</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Even setting that aside, however, you
                  have a problem where an individual might put down 0.7
                  or 0.9 or 0.5 for the SAME candidate in the SAME
                  election, solely based on how bad they are at creating
                  a cardinal comparison.  Humans are universally bad at
                  cardinal comparison.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">So now you can actually elect A, B, or C
                  based on how well-rested people are, how hungry they
                  are, or anything else that impacts their mood and thus
                  the sharpness or softness by which they critically
                  compare candidates.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">It's a sort of random number generator.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Wrapping it in a better system and using
                  that information to make auxiliary decisions is still
                  incorporating bad data.  Bad data is worse than no
                  data.</div>
              </div>
              <br>
              <div class="gmail_quote">
                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 21, 2019,
                  7:27 PM Felix Sargent <<a
                    href="mailto:felix.sargent@gmail.com"
                    rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">felix.sargent@gmail.com</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
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                    <div>I don't know how you can think that blurrier
                      data would end up with a more precise result. <br>
                    </div>
                    <div>No matter how you cut it, if you rank ABCD then
                      it translates into a score of <br>
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                    <div>
                      <div dir="auto">A: 1.0</div>
                      <div dir="auto">B: .75<br>
                      </div>
                      <div dir="auto">C: 0.5</div>
                      <div dir="auto">D: 0.25</div>
                      <div dir="auto"><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>There's no way of describing differences
                        between candidates beyond a straight line
                        between first place and last place. <br>
                      </div>
                      <div>Even if the voter is imprecise in the
                        difference between A and B they will never make
                        the error of rating B more than A, whereas the
                        error between a voter's actual preferences and
                        the preferences that are recorded with an
                        ordinal ballot has the liability of being
                        massive. Consider I like A and B but HATE C. ABC
                        does not tell you that.<br>
                      </div>
                      <div>That's not even going into what happens when
                        a voter ranks an ordinal ballot strategically,
                        placing "guaranteed losers" to 2nd and 3rd
                        places in order to improve the chances of their
                        first choice candidate (in IRV at least). <br>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Your analysis depends on the question of how
                      intelligent you believe the average voter to be. <br>
                    </div>
                    <div>If voters can use Amazon and Yelp star ratings,
                      they can do score voting.<br>
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                                <div><a href="https://felixsargent.com"
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 21,
                      2019 at 2:14 PM John <<a
                        href="mailto:john.r.moser@gmail.com"
                        rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">john.r.moser@gmail.com</a>>
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <div>Cardinal voting collects higher-resolution
                          data, but not necessarily precise data.
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Let's say you score
                            candidates:</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">A: 1.0</div>
                          <div dir="auto">B: 0.5</div>
                          <div dir="auto">C: 0.25</div>
                          <div dir="auto">D: 0.1</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">In reality, B is 90% as
                            favored as A. C is 70% as favored as B.  The
                            real numbers would be:</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">A: 1.0</div>
                          <div dir="auto">B: 0.9</div>
                          <div dir="auto">C: 0.63</div>
                          <div dir="auto">D: etc.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">How would this happen?</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Cardinal: I approve of A 90%
                            as much as B.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Natural and honest: I prefer A
                            to win, and I am not just as happy with B
                            winning, or close to it.  I feel maybe half
                            as good about that?  B is between C and D
                            and I don't like C, but I like D less.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Strategic: even voting 0.5 for
                            B means possibly helping B beat A, but what
                            if C wins...</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">The strategic nightmare is
                            inherent to score and approval systems. 
                            When approvals aren't used to elect but only
                            for data, people are not naturally inclined
                            to analyze a score representing their actual
                            approval.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Why?</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Because people decide by
                            simulation. Simulation of ordinal preference
                            is easy: I like A over B.  Even then,
                            sometimes you can't seem to decide who is
                            better.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Working out precisely how much
                            I approve of A versus B is harder.  It takes
                            a lot of effort and the basic simulation
                            approach responds heavily to how good you
                            feel about A losing to B, not about how much
                            B satisfies you on a scale of 0 to A.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto">Score and approval voting
                            source a high-error, low-confidence sample. 
                            It's like recording climate data by licking
                            your finger and holding it in the wind each
                            day, then writing down what you think is the
                            temperature.  Someone will say, "it's more
                            data than warmer/colder trends!" While
                            ignoring that you are not Mercury in a
                            graduated cylinder.</div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <br>
                          <div class="gmail_quote">
                            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri,
                              Jun 21, 2019, 3:10 PM Felix Sargent <<a
                                href="mailto:felix.sargent@gmail.com"
                                rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
                                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">felix.sargent@gmail.com</a>>
                              wrote:<br>
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                                <div>Valuation can be ordinal, in that
                                  you can know that 3 is more than 2.</div>
                                <div>There are two questions before us:
                                  Which voting method collects more
                                  data? Which tabulation method picks
                                  the best winner from that data?</div>
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                                <div>Which voting method collects more
                                  data?</div>
                                <div>Cardinal voting collects higher
                                  resolution data than ordinal voting.
                                  Consider this thought experiment. If I
                                  give you a rating of A:5 B:2 C:1 D:3
                                  E:5 F:2 you should create an ordered
                                  list from that -- AEDFBC. If I gave
                                  you AEDFBC you couldn't convert that
                                  back into its cardinal data.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div>Which tabulation picks a better
                                  winner from the data?</div>
                                <div>Both Score and Approval voting pick
                                  the person with the highest votes.</div>
                                <div>Summing ordinal data, on the other
                                  hand, is very complicated, as to avoid
                                  loops. Methods like Condorcet or IRV
                                  have been proposed to eliminate those
                                  but ultimately they're hacks for
                                  dealing with incomplete information.</div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                  Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 5:23 AM John <<a
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                                  <div dir="auto">Voters can't readily
                                    provide meaningful information as
                                    score voting. It's highly-strategic
                                    and the comparison of cardinal
                                    values is not natural.
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div dir="auto">All valuation is
                                      ordinal.  Prices are based from
                                      cost; but what people WILL pay,
                                      given no option to pay less, is
                                      based on ordinal comparison.</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
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                                    <div dir="auto">Is X worth 2 Y?</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div dir="auto">For the <span
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                                      I could have a OnePlus 6t and a
                                      Chromebook. The 6t...I can get a
                                      cheaper smartphone, but I prefer
                                      the 6t to that phone plus whatever
                                      else I buy.</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div dir="auto">I have a higher
                                      paying job, so each dollar is
                                      worth fewer hours, so the ordinal
                                      value of a dollar to me is lower. 
                                      <span
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                                      my dollars is fewer hours than <span
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                                      wage dollars.  I have access to my
                                      most-preferred purchases and can
                                      buy way down into my
                                      less-preferred purchases.</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div dir="auto">Information about
                                      this is difficult to pin down by
                                      voter.  Prices in the stock market
                                      set by a constant, public auction
                                      among millions of buyers and
                                      sellers.  A single buyer can
                                      hardly price one stock against
                                      another, and prices against what
                                      they think their gains will be
                                      relative to current price.</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
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                                    <div dir="auto">When pricing
                                      candidates, you'll see a lot like
                                      Mohs hardness: 2 is 200, 3 is 500,
                                      4 is 1,500; but we label things
                                      that are 250 or 450 as 2.5,
                                      likewise between 500 and 1,500 is
                                      3.5.  Being between X and Y is
                                      always immediately HALFWAY between
                                      X and Y, most intuitively.</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
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                                    <div dir="auto">The rated system
                                      sucks even before you factor in
                                      strategic concerns (which only
                                      matter if actually using a
                                      score-driven method).</div>
                                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div dir="auto">Approval is just
                                      low-resolution (1 bit) score
                                      voting.</div>
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                                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                      Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 12:01 AM
                                      C.Benham <<a
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                                        <p>Forest,<br>
                                          <br>
                                          With paper and pencil ballots
                                          and the voters only writing in
                                          their numerical scores it
                                          probably isn't very practical
                                          for the Australian Electoral
                                          Commission<br>
                                          hand vote-counters.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          But if it isn't compulsory to
                                          mark each candidate and the
                                          default score is zero, I'm
                                          sure the voters could quickly
                                          adapt.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          In the US I gather that there
                                          is at least one reform
                                          proposal to use these type of
                                          ballots. One of these, "Score
                                          Voting" aka "Range Voting", <br>
                                          proposes to just use Average
                                          Ratings with I gather the
                                          default score being "no
                                          opinion"  rather than zero and
                                          some tweak to prevent an
                                          unknown<br>
                                          candidate from winning.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          So it struck me that if we can
                                          collect such a large amount of
                                          detailed information from the
                                          voters then we could do a lot
                                          more with it, and if we<br>
                                          want something that meets the
                                          Condorcet criterion this is my
                                          suggestion.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Chris Benham<br>
                                          <br>
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                                          <p><big><b>How score voting
                                                works:</b></big></p>
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                                            <li>Each<span> </span><a
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                                                title="What a 'vote' is"
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                                              of a numerical score
                                              within some range (say<span> </span><a
href="https://rangevoting.org/Why99.html" title="Other scores such as
                                                0-10 also are possible
                                                and we do not insist on
                                                0-99. Link explains why
                                                0-99 is a good choice
                                                and how to use other
                                                scores."
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                                                to 99</a>) for each
                                              candidate. Simpler is 0 to
                                              9 ("single digit score
                                              voting").</li>
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                                          21/06/2019 5:33 am, Forest
                                          Simmons wrote:<br>
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                                            <div>Chris, I like it
                                              especially the part about
                                              naive voters voting
                                              sincerely being at no
                                              appreciable disadvantage
                                              while resisting burial and
                                              complying with  the CD
                                              criterion.  <br>
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                                            <div>From your experience in
                                              Australia where full
                                              rankings are required (as
                                              I understand it) what do
                                              you think about the
                                              practicality of rating on
                                              a scale of zero to 99, as
                                              compared with ranking a
                                              long list of candidates? 
                                              Is it a big obstacle?<br>
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