Dear Forest, you wrote (7 March 2003): > Has anybody ever proposed minimizing the maximum opposition rather than > minimizing the maximum defeat? I know that theoretically this could elect > the Condorcet Loser, but it seems very unlikely that it would do so.
Of course, the fact that the MinMax method can elect the Condorcet Loser has nothing to do with the way the strength of a pairwise comparison is measured. Example: 20 ABCD 20 BCAD 20 CABD 13 DABC 13 DBCA 13 DCAB Markus Schulze _______________________________________________ Election-methods mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com