Thank you for than information, Steve and Bart,
Both sets of data seem to confirm that the non-existance of a sincere
condorcet winner is not "probable". I would say: in a condorcet
election, if there happen to be several contenders, then the non
existance of a condorcet winner is a definate poss
Anthony Duff asked:
> I am interested in the question of the frequency
> of non-existence of a sincere CW. I personally
> do not know that it is probable.
Here's another reason to occasionally expect
sincere cycles at the top, when we're electing
candidates to offices: Candidates want to win!
Anthony Duff wrote:
>
> I am interested in the question of the frequency of non-existance of
> a sincere CW. I personally do not know that it is probable.
In Merrill, "Making Multicandidate...", in the table on p.24, he shows
frequency of sincere CW for 5 candidates under a random society
simul
Warren,
In both scenarios you have assumed a cyclic property of the
electorate in order to demonstrate a cyclic result. You therefore
are not demonstrating very much.
Anthony
--- Warren Schudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Anthony Duff wrote:
> > I am inter
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Anthony Duff wrote:
> I am interested in the question of the frequency of non-existance of
> a sincere CW. I personally do not know that it is probable.
Here are two scenarios where the classic 3-voter 3-candidate Condorcet
cycle arises naturally. They are bot
Jobst wrote in part...
> ... as there is no
> sincere CW (which is quite probable as we know!). This is because
> whatever candidate A gets elected, there is always a majority
> prefering some B who can elect B by voting "B > all others" without
> there being any counter-strategy to this threat.
[same post as before, now with word-wrapping -- sorry...]
Hi folks!
Just to repeat myself [another time ;-] : We must consider NON-DETERMINISTIC methods
like ROACC (see my post on the "recommendations" thread) since they are THE ONLY
methods which ensure at least weak group strategy equilibria
Hi folks!
Just to repeat myself: We must consider NON-DETERMINISTIC methods like ROACC (see my
post on the "recommendations" thread) since they are THE ONLY methods which ensure at
least weak group strategy equilibria (weak GSE, i.e. a situation in which there is a
counter-threat to every strat
>Group strategy equilibria are too common to be of much interest to me.
oops. I meant to say "group strategy equilibria are too RARE to be of much interest to me." Sorry.
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