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Kristofer,<br>
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Thanks. Yes I meant STAR.<br>
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Chris B.<br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">On 2023-09-30 10:07, C.Benham wrote:
><i> Rob,
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</i>>><i> A question for Chris (anyone who cares to answer), what's the best
</i>>><i> explanation of pushover at a public URL that seems reasonably academically
</i>>><i> rigorous (e.g. something that seems like it would pass muster as a citation
</i>>><i> on English Wikipedia)?
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</i>><i> Blake Cretney (who used to be active here) had a web-page
</i>><i> ("condorcet.org" I think it was called)
</i>><i> that is unfortunately now extinct. I regret not copying and storing the
</i>><i> definitions/explanations that
</i>><i> were there.
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It's still available on the Internet Archive:
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090713234702/http://www.condorcet.org:80/emr/defn.shtml" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://web.archive.org/web/20090713234702/http://www.condorcet.org:80/emr/defn.shtml</a>
The push-over definition says: "The strategy of ranking a weak
alternative higher than one's preferred alternative, which may be useful
in a method that violates monotonicity."
><i> SCORE is similar. There one can choose between maximising the chance
</i>><i> that a weak candidate will get in to the final two,
</i>><i> or weakening your vote for the weak candidate to just below maximum (4
</i>><i> instead of 5) so as to help your favourite win the
</i>><i> top-two pairwise comparison.
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Do you mean STAR? Score voting (Range voting) is monotone.
-km</pre>
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