<div id="ymail_android_signature">Richard</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561446857421"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561446857613">The drawback you talk about applies to ranked-ballot systems that convert ranks into points, such as Borda because of the assumptions made about what a voter's positional rank of a candidate means. However, it is not relevant to score/range voting where the voters pick the scores for each candidate themselves. There is no such assumption made in score voting.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561446968704"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561446968906">Score voting may have other drawbacks, but they are not the same as the drawbacks of Borda. They are completely different methods with different philosophies and should not be conflated.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447183664"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447183840"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447186735">"</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447232013">But the point is they are all assumptions.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447238745"> This is the basic drawback to score voting systems" is a statement made as a result of such a conflation and is wrong.</span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447069051"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447069193">Toby</div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 19:39, Richard Lung</div><div><voting@ukscientists.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv1718624657">
  
    
  
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    <div class="yiv1718624657moz-cite-prefix">It's standard statistics. I refered to
      it occasionally over the years. <br>
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    <div class="yiv1718624657moz-cite-prefix" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1561447180645">To give a more representative summary
      of classes of data, they may be weighted. If no accurate
      information is available, the weights to respective classes may be
      assumed. Hence Borda method fits the statistical description,
      weighting in arithmetic progression. JFS Ross, Elections and
      Electors, 1955, suggested that the weighting would be more
      realistic using the geometric mean. This would be weighting in
      geometric progression. The British broadcaster Robin Day favored
      weighting in harmonic progression! <br>
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      assumptions. This is the basic drawback to score voting systems.</div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
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