Dear Kristofer Munsterhjelm, you wrote (19 Jan 2009):
> So voters prefer MAM winners to Beatpath winners > more often than vice versa. What method is the > best in that respect? Copeland methods are the best methods in this respect. The fact, that the ranked pairs winner usually pairwise beats the Schulze winner in random simulations, is a direct consequence of the facts, that the Schulze winner is usually identical to the MinMax winner and that the MinMax winner usually has a very low Copeland score (compared to the winners of other Condorcet methods). Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info