On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, only kick out the losingest loser. I kinda think there would still be > discontinuities, but it might be better. Probably worth trying. Now I just > need to code that up and run the diagram code. Dunno when I'll actually get > around to that. > > Has anyone checked what happens to regular IRV under such a system?
Hmm, it becomes a condorcet complaint method (and so would the IRNR version). To be eliminated, you must lose pairwise to someone at least once (i.e. when there are only 2 candidates remaining in a (super)-round). It may suffer from the same problems as IRV-BTR ... which apparently has lots of bad properties :p. A disadvantage of the system is that it would take a large number of rounds, with N candidates you are looking at on the order of N squared rounds Actually, a simpler method would be IRNR-BTR. Rather than eliminating the lowest candidate, the lowest 2 candidates are compared pairwise against each other and the loser is eliminated. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
