Re: [EM] Spoiler Effect on Wikipedia

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Crowley
that claim, but if it's wrong please do fix it. Markus S - I'm very surprised that IIA does not imply ICC, could you give an example? I mean the strong version of IIA. -- __ \/ o\ Paul Crowley /\__/ www.ciphergoth.org Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Crowley
otherwise be a nondeterministically resolved tie, to say that if A does better than two alternatives and both alternatives do better than C then that's enough information to resolve the tie in favour of A B1 B2 C? -- __ \/ o\ Paul Crowley /\__/ www.ciphergoth.org Election-methods mailing list

Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Crowley
. Swapping these two is therefore bound to produce an ordering with a better sorted affirmed list; therefore a list that does not meet this criterion cannot be the winning list. -- __ \/ o\ Paul Crowley /\__/ www.ciphergoth.org Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em

Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Crowley
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:39:57 +, Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:33:19 +0100, Markus Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Paul, your Condorcet/RP variant sounds like Steve Eppley's minimize thwarted majorities (MTM) method. For each of the n! possible

Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Crowley
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:33:03 +, Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:33:19 +0100, Markus Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your Condorcet/RP variant sounds like Steve Eppley's minimize thwarted majorities (MTM) method. MTM is exactly equivalent to my method

Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Crowley
the subsequence a l q a e d a in that order, and that pundits will thus conclude that it's a terrorist plot. Let's look for a method that really seems good according to the things we really care about first, and worry about selling it second. -- __ \/ o\ Paul Crowley /\__/ www.ciphergoth.org