I'll attempt to respond to a few of the ridiculous arguments in Clay's post, because I've been a Hugo administrator and am therefore a masochist.
every time you tried to tell him you wanted sandwich C, you got sandwich B. ... THIS is EXACTLY what you are doing by using IRV instead of Range Voting.
Oh, for God's sake. "Every time"? This is actually a distorted version of a rare paradox that forms a tiny technical argument against IRV but is not therefore an argument for range voting. And the bad-with-English storekeeper analogy is so inane and a bad analogy that it's hardly worth commenting on.
Have you never seen how IRV works? You total all the votes, over and over again, in rounds,
Have you never seen how IRV works? We have a computer program that, once you get all the raw data in it, counts the entire Hugo ballot and spews out the whole result, first second third &c &c places, in the complete iterations, plus checking for a special rule we have for balancing winner preferences against No Award preferences - everything you could possibly want to know - in less than 20 seconds. I've used it personally. It's such a good program that Hugo voting results are usually published in the form of its immediate output. This is not in the slightest way more difficult than counting up range voting points.
You tell me ANY way in which you think IRV is better than Range Voting, and I'll prove you wrong.
Since you elsewhere define things like 1-5 star movie ratings as a form of range voting (which I think is wrong, because in those you're not trying to advocate a winner), then I can tell you this: I've voted both ways, and I personally find casting range votes much harder than casting IRV with a limited number of candidates. Much harder.
Now, you can talk about voters prefering range voting, though I want to see your proof that they do. Has Gallup done a survey, and how did they count it? And I'm only one voter (though the other Hugo voters who've responded here sound as if they'd say the same thing). But you said you'd dispute "ANY way" in which IRV claims to be superior. And one voter's preference for it is a claimed superiority.
So come on. Tell me that I'm mistaking my own personal preference.
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Re: Missing the point
Date: 2007-01-23 04:45 pm (UTC)every time you tried to tell him you wanted sandwich C, you got sandwich B. ... THIS is EXACTLY what you are doing by using IRV instead of Range Voting.
Oh, for God's sake. "Every time"? This is actually a distorted version of a rare paradox that forms a tiny technical argument against IRV but is not therefore an argument for range voting. And the bad-with-English storekeeper analogy is so inane and a bad analogy that it's hardly worth commenting on.
Have you never seen how IRV works? You total all the votes, over and over again, in rounds,
Have you never seen how IRV works? We have a computer program that, once you get all the raw data in it, counts the entire Hugo ballot and spews out the whole result, first second third &c &c places, in the complete iterations, plus checking for a special rule we have for balancing winner preferences against No Award preferences - everything you could possibly want to know - in less than 20 seconds. I've used it personally. It's such a good program that Hugo voting results are usually published in the form of its immediate output. This is not in the slightest way more difficult than counting up range voting points.
You tell me ANY way in which you think IRV is better than Range Voting, and I'll prove you wrong.
Since you elsewhere define things like 1-5 star movie ratings as a form of range voting (which I think is wrong, because in those you're not trying to advocate a winner), then I can tell you this: I've voted both ways, and I personally find casting range votes much harder than casting IRV with a limited number of candidates. Much harder.
Now, you can talk about voters prefering range voting, though I want to see your proof that they do. Has Gallup done a survey, and how did they count it? And I'm only one voter (though the other Hugo voters who've responded here sound as if they'd say the same thing). But you said you'd dispute "ANY way" in which IRV claims to be superior. And one voter's preference for it is a claimed superiority.
So come on. Tell me that I'm mistaking my own personal preference.