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Unfortunately, Approval Voting cannot deliver the best candidate for the job when analyzing the Bayesian Regret. Only minimized best via Score Voting.
by sova 6y ago
Unfortunately, Approval Voting cannot deliver the best candidate for the job when analyzing the Bayesian Regret. Only minimized best via Score Voting.
- elihu 6y agoI assume you're referring to the graph that appears (among other places) on this page[1] about 3/5ths of the way down? You're right that score voting does better in that simulation when everyone votes honestly. But if everyone votes strategically, then score voting and approval voting are the same. (This makes sense because tactical score voting is mostly just score voting with maximalized votes, which is basically the same as approval voting.) Using approval voting basically forces everyone to use tactical voting. Which might be less good in some metrics but it ensures that all voters have basically the same amount of influence, as opposed to tactical voters having more influence than honest voters. I think having equal influence is pretty important. I'm not sure if this simulation that everyone likes to cite has been run more recently with STAR voting. That would be interesting. [1] https://ncase.me/ballot/ https://ncase.me/ballot/