"raylopez99" wrote in message
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On Apr 29, 3:39 pm, "David Kane" wrote:


You should go to where the data takes you without
worrying about consumer acceptance.

You are aware I hope of the theory behind voting, and that game
theorists have determined there is no such thing as a 'free and fair'
vote scheme where more than two parties exist? So you cannot say
"where the data takes you" since your scheme is normative, not based
on the laws of mathematics or science.


Ratings have predictive value that can be measured objectively.

That in reality ratings are administered with consumer acceptance
in mind rather than accuracy doesn't change that. Many of
the ranking systems of which I am aware (for example, you gave
the soccer example) don't restrict themselves in the way that
chess does. Consumer acceptance doesn't seem to suffer.