Re: [EM] Arrow's axioms

2004-03-06 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, to demonstrate that a given election method violates a given criterion it is sufficient to find a single example where this election method violates this criterion. When in this very special example each voter casts a complete ranking of all candidates then this does not mean that you have

RE: [EM] Real Ballot Data Analysis

2004-03-06 Thread James Gilmour
At 12:26 AM + 3/6/04, James Gilmour wrote: We'll never know because we do not have access to the real ballots. You'll find papers by Brian Wichman and others on the generation of plausible election data in the journal 'Voting matters' and possibly elsewhere. Eric asked: What do they

Re: [EM] Arrow's axioms an alternative to elections

2004-03-06 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Philippe, On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:03 PM, Philippe Errembault wrote: My point is that if you want to rank multi-dimensional information, you will have to project your space to a one-dimensional space. This will be done using a function that, especially for human beings, will depends on your

Re: [EM] Arrow's axioms an alternative to elections

2004-03-06 Thread Philippe Errembault
Hello Ernie, (please forget my previous mail/ I forgot to redirect it to the list, and I forgot to end one paragraph) My point is that if you want to rank multi-dimensional information, you will have to project your space to a one-dimensional space. This will be done using a function that,

[EM] Site Updates

2004-03-06 Thread Eric Gorr
Well, just finished updating my calculator site. I now allow people to enter the complete names of the candidates and will hopefully get back some interesting ballots every once in awhile. I also added the IRV method to my site...but only because I needed a way to more easily compare