Markus--
You said:
I suggest that you should read how other people define criteria.
I reply:
Thank you, Markus. I've read a number of definitions of criteria, and that means that I've read of how people define criteria.
And, in your previous posting, we all read how you define some criteria. Except that you didn't define them, because you use a word "prefer", which you still haven't defined.
Sure, "prefer" has a meaning. For the purpose of election results, someone prefers X to Y if s/he would rather have X win than Y. Alternatively worded, s/he prefers X to Y if s/he considers that it would be better if X won than if Y won.
Maybe that's what you mean by "prefer". If that's what you mean by prefer, then, as I said,
the criteria that you wrote are a kind of criteria that you said that you don't like. You said that criteria should only mention cast ballots, not preferences.
You seemed (?) to imply that that is not what you mean by "prefer".
And, if that isn't what you mean by "prefer", then it remains unknown what you mean by "prefer".
In my previous posting about this, I suggested that maybe, to you, "preference" means voted pairwise comparison. And I defined voted pairwise comparison.
But it seems to me that the criteria "definitions" in your previous posting used the verb "prefer" rather than the noun "preference". So the briefest-defined approach would be to state the brief definition for what I might _guess_ that you mean by "prefer":
A voter "prefers" X over Y if s/he votes X over Y.
If that's what you mean by "prefer', then it would be better if you spoke of votes instead wanting to change the meaning of "prefers" in that way.
But this is all guesses, since you haven't told us what you mean by "prefer".
Definitions of voting X over Y have been posted to EM.
Markus, if you don't tell us what you mean, no one will know what you're trying to say.
Mike Ossipoff
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