On 4/30/12 5:11 PM, Paul Kislanko wrote:
I always thought the “Condorcet is like a round-robin athletic tournament” analogy was weak, because individual voters don’t get to go through the round-robin and make their pairwise preferences explicit. (As a voter, I’d find a “better/worse” pairwise choice for all pairs easier than filling out a ranked ballot, ...
Paul, I find it difficult to understand how you, as an individual, can make a set of explicit pair preferences without it being equivalent to a ranked ballot. an individual is not an entire electorate. it's not multiple personality disorder if it's multiple persons. an entire electorate can create a condorcet cycle but i just don't understand how a single voter can. if you like A better than B and B better than C, you like A better than C, no?
then i can't see the issue of deriving pairwise preference from ranking or the inverse. it shouldn't matter.
or should we allow for cyclical preferences in a single ballot? -- r b-j r...@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
