Joint meeting of the All-Moscow Seminars "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics" and "Expert Assessments and Data Analysis"
On October 8 (Wednesday), 2025, a joint meeting of the All-Moscow Seminars "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics" and "Expert Assessments and Data Analysis" was held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
![Joint meeting of the All-Moscow Seminars "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics" and "Expert Assessments and Data Analysis"](/data/2025/10/16/146708122/IMG_20251008_150625.jpg "Joint meeting of the All-Moscow Seminars "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics" and "Expert Assessments and Data Analysis"")
Leaders of the joint meeting of the seminars:
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Prof. Aleskerov Fuad Tagievich,
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Prof. Podinovsky Vladislav Vladimirovich,
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Prof. Mirkin Boris Grigorievich.
Speaker: Dr. Peter Emerson (de Borda Institute, Belfast, UK)
Title of the report: Majority voting may be ok if, but only if, the two options are a duality
Abstract of the report:
In a court of law, a frequent question - ‘Guilty or not guilty?’ - is a duality. But in politics, very few questions are a duality. Therefore, a multi-optional or, better still, preferential voting procedure is needed. And at best, the Modified Borda Count MBC can identify the option with the highest average preference; the methodology is inclusive, literally; it is non-majoritarian; and it is highly accurate.
