Re: [EM] scored condorcet, etc

2005-12-01 Thread rob brown
On 11/30/05, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:51 PM 11/27/2005, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:At 07:11 PM 11/23/2005, Rob Brown wrote:Yes, but all it shows is the winner, and only if that candidate is the condorcet winner.What if the winner is not a condorcet winner?Then the matrix

Re: [EM] ignoring strength of opinion

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Eppley
Briefly replying to two people's comments: Rob Brown wrote: -snip- I believe that condorcet elections intentionally ignore strength of opinion information for the exact same practical reason. Since there is no way to avoid collecting some strength of opinion information (while still

Re: [EM] ignoring strength of opinion

2005-12-01 Thread rob brown
On 12/1/05, Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Briefly replying to two people's comments:Rob Brown wrote:-snip- I believe that condorcet elections intentionally ignore strength of opinion information for the exact same practical reason. Since there is no way to avoid collecting some strength

Re: [EM] ignoring strength of opinion

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
Steve Eppley wrote: Hi, [Rob Brown suggested I post his unintentionally private message to me and my reply. Here they are.] Rob wrote to me: On 12/1/05, Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with both of Rob's messages so far on this topic except for one sentence,

Re: [EM] ignoring strength of opinion

2005-12-01 Thread rob brown
On 12/1/05, Paul Kislanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but you contradict yourself. See below. Sorry if you don't want me mentioning borda, but the only way to get around what you see as wrong is by doing exactly what borda does. And that is bad. Borda isn't the only way topreserve rank