U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone

Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by gfunk911 on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @06:14AM (#11380506)

I like the idea but don't agree that all you do is vote above the cutoff. If there are 10 choices and I approve of 3, but I know my 7 and 9 are the only possible winners, I'll likely vote 1 2 3 7.

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by ClayShentrup on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @10:47AM (#11381838)

Your best strategy is to approve all candidates you prefer to the expected value of the winner. http://www.electology.org/score-voting-threshold-strategy

This works out well, tending to elect Condorcet winners. http://ScoreVoting.net/AppCW.html

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by eru on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @10:27PM (#11386563)

Thanks. So the best strategy is even simpler!

So you do vote above the cutoff. But the optimal cutoff is really simple to find from the polls.

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by winstonewert on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @11:38PM (#11386803)

I don't think that works. Polls tell you the levels of support of the candidates, they don't give you the probability of each candidate winning which is what you need to figure out the expected value of the winner.

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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by eru on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:05AM (#11387660)

I guess it's back to the prediction markets (or fivethirtyeight) then.

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