On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:01:25PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Sure. But given that we have apparently adapted Condorcet rules for > multi-winners, my point was just that the whole point of Condorcet is > to optimise for some other set of conditions than proportionality of > preferences.
Obviously. However, I believe that this is *not* because the need for proportionality has been rejected, but because the need for proportionality has not been considered before. As recently as last year, I personally was an advocate of the iterate-Condorcet technique, not having thought its implications through. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/
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