I wrote: > 7.1 A candidate's "defeat margin" means the largest > number of votes credited to any other candidate in > the set who outpolls that candidate on any pairwise > comparison. Steve replied: > How about something like "defeat size" instead of "defeat margin"? > Pretty please with cherries on top? Aaaargh! I did it again! Sorry, Steve, I don't mean to do this, but I seem to have been sent into this cyber-universe to frustrate you by continuing to talk about "defeat margins" [sic]. What happened here was that I lifted and pasted this draft set of rules from another doc I'd written a week or two before and forgot to change the offending term ... only several paragraphs after, and in the very same message that, I'd promised to stop using it. Now is perhaps a good time to explain that I write some of my messages in wordperfect 5.1 on my computer at home, then convert them to text and post them on my next visit to campus (these tend to be fairly coherent, with points, headings, proper spellings, detailed citations, accurate statistics, etc) whereas most of my messages are written "on the spot" and "off the top of my head" while using a staff computer lab at Griffith University (these messages tend to have a lot of guesstimates, "I thinks?", "maybes", vague references, and fuzzy figures). The lab I use is a communal area, so I don't have my books, files, etc available to check while writing, as I would have if writing in my own office at home. Please keep the above in mind when I make factual errors, as seems to be disturbingly common lately, or fail to reply to messages sent! Tom