[EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Fobes
On 5/7/2012 11:10 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote: Yeah? How about this, then?: 27: A>B (they prefer A to B, and B to C) 24: B>A 49: C (indifferent between everyone other than C) Cases that require carefully chosen numbers, as this example does, become less important than patterns that occur over

Re: [EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

2012-05-07 Thread Juho Laatu
On 8.5.2012, at 8.33, Richard Fobes wrote: > As I've said on this forum before, some studies should be done to compare > _how_ _often_ each method fails each criterion. Those numbers would be quite > useful for comparing criteria in terms of importance. In the meantime, just > a checkbox with

Re: [EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Subject: [EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria On 5/7/2012 11:10 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote: > Yeah? How about this, then?: > > 27: A>B (they prefer A to B, and B to C) > 24: B>A > 49: C (indifferent between everyone other than C) Richard replies: Cases t

Re: [EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

2012-05-08 Thread Jameson Quinn
> > > Mike, if you really want to elevate FBC above the Condorcet criterion, I > suggest that you start by noticing that it is the only voting criterion in > the Wikipedia comparison table that does not link to a Wikipedia article > about the criterion (and such a link is also missing from the text

Re: [EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Ketchum
Mike O had written: We often hear about how Condorcet, but not Approval, lets you help Favorite against Compromise. I agree, but not with Mike O's many words. He offers one special case - I will try to be general as to the ideas, but base my thoughts on Plurality, Approval, and a sample Co