robert bristow-johnson wrote:
i haven't been following closely this example scenario (for some reason
they don't seem compelling to me), but i did see "WV" referred to
several times and missed the definition. i can imagine it might stand
for West Virginia or Working Voter or Winning Votes or i dunno. can
someone fill me in?
WV is "winning votes". Say the method in question works upon variables
d[x,y], and the Condorcet matrix is c[x,y] for some pair x,y of candidates.
Then, WV defines:
d[x,y] = c[x,y] if c[x,y] > c[y,x], otherwise 0.
and Margins defines:
d[x,y] = max(0, c[x,y] - c[y,x]).
"Pairwise Opposition", the PO in MMPO, just defines d[x,y] = c[x,y].
There are other ways of defining d as well, but those are the most
common (and wv and margins much more common than PO).
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