Talk:Cardinal voting systems

Should this just be merged into Category:Cardinal voting methods? — Psephomancy (talk) 05:28, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Recent edits

"Score voting has the lowest Bayesian Regret among all common single-winner election methods"

Should always clarify that BR/SUE/VSE are measurements, and that evaluation of methods depends on the assumptions made in the simulations. In other words, distinguish Smith's BR simulations from BR itself, and Quinn's/Merrill's VSE/SUE simulations from VSE/SUE itself. I could run BR simulations with different voter distributions that give different results, for instance.

"Simply put, voting in the range [0,1] or [0,100] or even [-42,7] is irrelevant."

This isn't true in the real world, because of the psychological impact of negative numbers. See https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01618039/document etc

Also I think it's good to use the term "Score voting" for real-world systems with discrete score levels, and "Range voting" for mathematical simulations with real numbers from 0 to 1, as in the references on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_voting#Variants.

— Psephomancy (talk) 17:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)