<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Score's partial ratings provide more information if you release the full ballots (w/ noise added to preserve privacy). There's a big difference between a candidate receiving 1/5 on 100% of ballots vs. 5/5 on 20% of ballots.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It also makes the method simpler for voters who want to be honest. In studies, people find binary ratings harder than ratings out of 5, because it's hard to pick when you're on the fence between 2 options.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And if voters want to do their part to elect the best candidate, instead of playing strategic games, we should let them! We want honest voting to be as easy as possible, because honest voting is a public good. Filling in a bubble labeled 5/5 is no harder than filling one labeled 1/1. But in real life I don't carry dice around very often.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Reply continued:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone who votes other than all-or-nothing in a public political election is using poor strategy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone who gives any support to an evil (even if lesser) is being a sucker.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As for Score’s partial-ratings, useful only when it’s genuinely uncertain whether a candidate qualifies for approval: How hard is it to flip a coin, to probabilistically give someone half an approval?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">… or draw numbers from a bag, to approve someone with any probability you want.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You want Score to do that for you, so that you won’t have to do it for yourself?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don’t complicate the method because you don’t want to do something for yourself.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 16:34 Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com" target="_blank">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="auto"><font face="-apple-system, helvetica neue" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue"">For me, personally, I'd probably minmax with range voting. But I don't think score is any more complicated than approval voting, and Warren D. Smith argues (IMO convincingly) that Score is more likely to stick in the long run because it reduces the number of voters who bullet vote, which </span></font><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";word-spacing:1px">deals with one common concern, and because it's more popular with third parties because of the nursery effect. (STAR is even better for this, since it makes bullet voting less attractive strategically and appeals to people who like IRV'S runoff.)</span></div></div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michael Ossipoff</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 12:52<br>Subject: Re: [EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 236, Issue 18<br>To: robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">Who knows. I hope Progressives don’t. In public political elections with Score, all-or-nothing rating is optimal, & I’d advise Progressives to rate all-or-nothing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The legitimate use for Score’s partial ratings would be only for when it’s genuinely uncertain whether or not a candidate should get an approval.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That’s Score’s luxury-convenience.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I don’t want it. In Approval, you can give a probabilistic partial approval when it’s uncertain whether a candidate rates approval:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Flip a coin, to give hir 50% probability of approval. Or draw one of 3 numbers from a bag , for a 1/3 approval-probability.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or number 10 paper squares of paper from 0 to 9, & twice draw one from the bag (with replacement), to write a 2-digit number from 0 to 99. …in order to approve the candidate with any desired probability from 1% to 99%.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But don’t complicate & elaborate the method, don’t lose Approval’s absolute minimalness & unique complete unarbitrariness, because you don’t want to do something for yourself.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don’t lose Approval’s uniquely easy proposal, implementation, administration & security-auditing because you want Score to do partial rating for you.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At EM, Robert recently made the same comment that he made here. I answered it there. …a long & thorough answer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the current poll, everyone participating, including me, is rating sincerely in the Score ballotings because there’s no reason not to. Nothing is at stake. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have a rank-balloting, to be counted by RP(wv), to, strategy-free, show the CW.</div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 22:07 robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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