Dear participants,
a few month ago there was a discussion whether Condorcet
implicitely presumes that every voter makes a complete
ranking of all candidates. On 8 March 2000, I wrote that
in the paper "Sur les Elections / On elections" (Journal
d'Instruction Sociale, vol. 1, p. 25-32, 1793)
Dear Mike,
Condorcet writes ("Sur les Elections," Journal
d'Instruction Sociale, vol. 1, p. 25-32, 1793):
Mais il n'est pas necessaire que chacun fasse
toutes ces comparaisons, compose une liste
complette; il peut en regarder un certain nombre
comme egaux entr'eux, soit qu'il les juge tels
Markus wrote:
in his paper "Sur la Forme des Elections" (1789),
Condorcet proposes a Copeland method. He writes:
If there are only 20 competitors then -to get the result
of their head to head comparisons- it is necessary to
evaluate the votes for 190 propositions, and for 780
Dear Blake,
in his paper "Sur la Forme des Elections" (1789),
Condorcet proposes a Copeland method. He writes:
S'il y a seulement vingt Concurrens, pour avoir le
resultat de leur comparaisons deux a deux, il faut
examiner les voix donnees sur 190 propositions, et
sur 780 propositions s'il y
Hi Mike,
Welcome back to the list, by the way :-)
You wrote:
There is no justification for deciding that Condorcet favoured
winning-votes, however.
Except for the way "plurality" is used now in reference to voting.
Maybe it was used differently in Condorcet's time country, but
until we
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
I don't know of a MinMax or Condorcet definition in an academic
article that says anything about incomplete rankings.
That's what I thought. My point is, that if they aren't considering
the
issue of incomplete rankings, they might say one of:
1. Find
The translations of Condorcet's own words for his bottom-up
iteration proposal have Plain Condorcet as their literal
interpretation. Yes some of us, including me, believe that
Mr. Condorcet meant more than Plain Condorcet, but what I
call Plain Condorcet is the literal, simplest
Dear participants,
on page LXVIII of his "Essai sur l'application de l'analyse a la
probabilite des decisions rendues a la pluralite des voix"
(Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1785), Condorcet writes due to my own
translation:
From the considerations, we have just made, we get the general
rule,
This is in reply to Mike Ossipoff Re: Pairwise Matrices and Ballots
I am changing the subject heading because the topic changed.
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
I don't know of a MinMax or Condorcet definition in an academic
article that says anything about incomplete rankings.
That's what I
