RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Kislanko
- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] On Behalf Of Kevin Venzke > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet > > Paul, > > --- Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Kevin Venzke
Dear Jobst, I apologize if you feel that I haven't taken your ideas seriously. I haven't been reading EM very much until recently. I will spend some time reading past messages. I did understand how your first proposal for measuring defeat strength was a special case of the "grand compromise," t

RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Kevin Venzke
Paul, --- Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Well, you're wrong, although as usual you guys are really arrogant. I don't see how I was wrong, except that you forgot to mention that you don't care what I'm talking about. Regarding your several paragraphs: > I was objecting to phras

[EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Kevin! Let us recall: you suggest to use only three slots and to interpret candidates in slots 1 and 2 as approved of and candidates in slot 3 as not approved of. Then you came up with the topic of how to measure defeat strength best without having to count all winning votes, and suggested to

RE: RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Kislanko
m to yourself. You never advance a discussion with ad hominems. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] On Behalf Of Kevin Venzke > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] RE

RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Kevin Venzke
Paul, --- Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Kevin Venzke wrote: > > My intended strategy is to discard "noise" > > candidates. For example, again: > > > > 9 A>B>C > > 8 B>C>A > > 7 C>A>B > > > > I don't want to see B win here. Nine A voters will kick themselves > > if B wins. T

RE: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Kislanko
Kevin Venzke wrote: > My intended strategy is to discard "noise" > candidates. For example, again: > > 9 A>B>C > 8 B>C>A > 7 C>A>B > > I don't want to see B win here. Nine A voters will kick themselves > if B wins. The best resolution seems to be to pretend the (clearly) > weakest candidate,

Re: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-07 Thread Kevin Venzke
Dear Jobst, --- Jobst Heitzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > (The scenario I have in mind is: Approval ranking: A>B>C. Pairwise: > > B>A>C>B. B wins. If B's approval is simply reduced somehow, with no > > other changes: Approval ranking: A>C>B. Now A wins.) > > Isn't that very strange? We

[EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-06 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Kevin! you wrote: > Hmm. I note that if A is going to be elected despite being defeated > pairwise by B, this must mean that A has greater approval than B, and > that A's wins will be locked first. This is what happens in your version, right. And at first it seems to be intuitive to requi

Re: [EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Venzke
Jobst, Thanks for taking the time to look at this idea. --- Jobst Heitzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > But the vector > (0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0) > is linearly independent from > (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1), [...] Interesting, this is precisely what I ended up doing to convince myself that the magnit

[EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-05 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Kevin! you wrote: > If there are three ranks, and R1 is the number of candidates > placed in the first rank, R2 for second, and R3 the number of > unmarked candidates, then using the above method the manual > counter will have to mark > > (R1*R2) + (R1*R3) + (R2*R3) tallies. ... > For a give

[EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-04 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hello all, I accidentally came up with an easier way to hand-count three-slot Condorcet. By "easier" I mean fewer tally marks (potentially by far) per ballot. The intuitive way to count Condorcet methods is to take a ballot, and mark a vote in a matrix at X,Y for every candidate X ranked above