Re: [EM] Improved Generalised Bucklin

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Gorr
At 2:40 AM +0930 8/26/03, Chris Benham wrote: On Sat.23-8-03 Eric Gorr wrote: Why do you believe the middle preferences of a voter should matter less then the highest or lowest preferences? CB:I don't believe that (and never said I did). You may have discovered an unintended effect. I admit that i

[EM] Improved Generalised Bucklin

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Benham
On Sat.23-8-03 Eric Gorr wrote: Why do you believe the middle preferences of a voter should matter less then the highest or lowest preferences? CB:I don't believe that (and never said I did). You may have discovered an unintended effect. I admit that it is maybe a bit odd that the

[EM] Re: "More general 5-candidate IRV failure example"

2003-08-25 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Mike Ossipoff, you wrote (23 Aug 2003): > Markus said: > > The fact that the binary methods are all vulnerable to > > preference misrepresentation of an equal difficulty is > > not surprising as the winning criterion of these methods > > is a binary one by definition. Hence all relevant > > i

Re: [EM] Cheering for simplicity/Orphan

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Mason
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:10:47PM -0400, John B. Hodges wrote: > Some further comments. Most Condorcet-methods are "brute force" > computationally. The first thing they do is do all possible pairwise > comparisons. The multiseat method CPO-STV is likewise a "brute force" > method; for an N-seat