Indeed. (Though who's to say the man wasn't shapely.)
I remember the Shapley-Shubik power index [1], used to measure someone's voting power. Roughly, you imagine the voters vote one at a time, imagine all possible orders in which they could vote, and count the percentage of permutations in which your vote is the one that makes the step from "less than majority" to "majority". (The subject of the vote is a binary choice.)
I remember thinking the Banzhaf power index [2] was better. I learned about all this from a CTY summer class called "Game Theory and Strategy". I didn't know how to program back then, and I might profit from rethinking the concepts...
I remember the Shapley-Shubik power index [1], used to measure someone's voting power. Roughly, you imagine the voters vote one at a time, imagine all possible orders in which they could vote, and count the percentage of permutations in which your vote is the one that makes the step from "less than majority" to "majority". (The subject of the vote is a binary choice.)
I remember thinking the Banzhaf power index [2] was better. I learned about all this from a CTY summer class called "Game Theory and Strategy". I didn't know how to program back then, and I might profit from rethinking the concepts...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Shubik_power_i...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzhaf_power_index