MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: > > Warren-- > > You wrote: > > I would expect it [beatpath] is extremely manipulable. > > I reply: > > Critics of pairwise-count methods speak of how they're vulnerable to > two offensive strategies: > > Truncation and offensive order-reversal. > > And, for all Condorcet methods other than Condorcet(wv), they're > right. All Condorcet methods that don't use winning-votes are a > strategic mess, just as you suspect. But wv is different. You're > ignoring the distinction between different kinds of Condorcet.
46: A>B 44: B>C (sincere is B or B>A) 10: C The defeat-dropper style "Condorcet(wv)" method you refer to here elects B. This looks a lot like vulnerability to "offensive order-reversal" (aka Burial strategy) to me. Chris Benham ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info