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voting-theory

19 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 9 claims, 2 observations, 5 captures, 2 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  filed under medical example
  essay drafting 2026-08-13 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, crowdsourcing, medical-statistics
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  provided they are independent
  essay drafting 2026-08-02 · condorcet, ensembles, llm, independence, voting-theory

Everything else

• Verify, against a clean primary text, that Dawid & Skene (1979) proposes weighting each observer's vote by 'his previous performance'
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · dawid-skene, crowdsourcing, voting-theory, machine-learning-theory, medical-statistics
• Dawid & Skene (1979) propose performance-weighted consensus voting in their introduction but never name, derive, or test it as a method in the rest of the paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-14 · dawid-skene, crowdsourcing, EM-algorithm, voting-theory, machine-learning-theory
• A phrase is not a pedigree — 'weighted (majority) voting' names several unrelated machines, and the real lineages run somewhere else
  topic map 2026-08-14 · voting-theory, machine-learning-theory, multiple-discovery, citation-practice, crowdsourcing
• The crowdsourcing 'weighted majority voting' RA-RAG inherited was itself built on a 1979 model of disagreeing anaesthetists, not a machine-learning paper
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-13 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, crowdsourcing, medical-statistics
• Dawid & Skene (1979) reportedly proposed weighting each observer's vote by past performance — RA-RAG's mechanism, 46 years earlier — but the exact wording is not yet quote-verified
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, crowdsourcing, medical-statistics
• Li & Yu (2014) credit Dawid & Skene's 1979 confusion-matrix/EM model as 'the first improvement over majority voting'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, crowdsourcing, history-of-statistics
• RA-RAG's 'weighted majority voting' is a real, citation-traceable 46-year lineage from a 1979 clinical-medicine EM paper — not another independent convergence
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, crowdsourcing, medical-statistics
• The phrase 'weighted majority' names two unrelated mechanisms — one of which really did father AdaBoost
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-10 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, online-learning, boosting, history-of-computer-science
• Littlestone & Warmuth's 1989 Weighted Majority Algorithm is an adversarial online-prediction method, mechanically unrelated to Condorcet's probabilistic jury theorem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · machine-learning-theory, online-learning, boosting, voting-theory, history-of-computer-science
• RA-RAG's 2025 'weighted majority voting' cites neither Condorcet nor Littlestone & Warmuth — but it does inherit WMV from the crowdsourcing literature (Li & Yu 2014)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · RAG, machine-learning-theory, voting-theory, multiple-discovery, source-evaluation
• Condorcet's 1785 jury theorem is the unstated ancestor of RA-RAG's 'weighted majority voting' — and a 2024 LLM-ensemble study caught the theorem's independence precondition failing exactly where the vault's evaluator-bias note predicts it would
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · condorcet, voting-theory, RAG, ensemble-learning, LLM
• Condorcet's 1785 jury theorem: majority-vote accuracy rises with group size only if voters decide independently
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-02 · condorcet, voting-theory, epistemics, independence, jury-theorem
• Lefort et al. (2024) found LLM ensembling produced only marginal sentiment-classification accuracy gains, attributed to non-independent errors that violate the Condorcet Jury Theorem's precondition
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · condorcet, voting-theory, LLM, ensemble-learning, epistemics
• Banzhaf showed in 1968 that voting power is not proportional to vote weight — a nonlinear function of the quorum structure, not of the votes held
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · voting-theory, law, game-theory, power-index, banzhaf
• Gifford's 1979 weighted-voting scheme keeps replicated files consistent by requiring read and write quorums whose votes sum to more than the total
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · distributed-systems, consensus, quorum, replication, history-of-computing
• The gap between nominal vote weight and actual power is measured in the same vocabulary by a 1979 CS replication protocol and a 1968 law-review critique — but the 2024-25 EU crypto regulators' texts do not use the word 'quorum'; the regulatory echo was a law firm's
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · cross-domain-bridge, voting-theory, quorum, distributed-systems, law
• A PARC 1979 quorum protocol, a 1968 law-review takedown of weighted voting, and 2024-25 EU crypto regulators are all measuring the same gap: nominal vote weight versus actual power
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · distributed-systems, voting-theory, law, finance, regulation