Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-03-21 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:30 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Here are the proposed statutory rules: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/propstat.pdf __ Suppose d[V,W] is the number of valid ballots on which candidate V is strictly

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-03-21 Thread robert bristow-johnson
sorry if this is too long On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Markus Schulze wrote: Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (21 March 2010): Schulze's advantage is that it's actually being used and that it provides good results (by the Minmax standard). Ranked Pairs's (or MAM's, rather) is that it's easy

Re: [EM] metrics on elections

2010-03-21 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Stephen Turner wrote: Hello. It's been quite a while since I posted here. I have a question: does anyone have any good pointers to material on metrics on elections? A "metric" is as usual, and an "election" would be simply an election profile, that is you have some set S of permitted ballot ty

[EM] metrics on elections

2010-03-21 Thread Stephen Turner
Hello.  It's been quite a while since I posted here.  I have a question: does anyone have any good pointers to material on metrics on elections? A "metric" is as usual, and an "election" would be simply an election profile, that is you have some set S of permitted ballot types, and so man

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-03-21 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (21 March 2010): > Schulze's advantage is that it's actually being > used and that it provides good results (by the > Minmax standard). Ranked Pairs's (or MAM's, > rather) is that it's easy to explain. > > The question is: which of these qualities are > more im

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-03-21 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, of course, I am leaning towards the Schulze method. This method is by far the most wide-spread Condorcet method. It is used by about 50 organizations with about 100,000 eligible members in total. It has also become very popular among scientists: http://en.wikipedia.