majority preference’s intransitivity makes the notion of a best or winning candidate meaningless.
No. The social welfare function is *utilitarian*. The best candidate is the one with the greatest sum of utilities among all voters.
http://scorevoting.net/UtilFoundns
When you use this (correct) metric to assess voting methods, you get very interesting results.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
http://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/vse7
No. The social welfare function is *utilitarian*. The best candidate is the one with the greatest sum of utilities among all voters.
http://scorevoting.net/UtilFoundns
When you use this (correct) metric to assess voting methods, you get very interesting results.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
http://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/vse7