Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-28 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
I'd said: If EM ever needs to vote on something, a good system might be to count the ballots by BeatpathWinner and by Tideman(wv), and choose the winner that pairwise-beats the other. Markus said: Could you please demonstrate that your proposal meets monotonicity? I don't have a

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-27 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Markus said: When we count the ballots by Tideman and Schulze and then choose that candidate of these 2 winners whose worst pairwise defeat is smaller then this would violate independence from clones. When we count the ballots by Tideman and Schulze and then choose that candidate of these 2

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-26 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Mike, you wrote (25 Oct 2000): Ok, Markus, but what would you say to a suggestion that we count the ballots by Tideman(wv) and by BeatpathWinner, and then hold a 2nd balloting so people can vote which of those 2 winners they prefer? That sounds democratic to me. ... If EM ever

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-25 Thread Bart Ingles
Rob Lanphier wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bart Ingles wrote: My thought while reading it was, "Gee, I'm glad to see someone found a legitimate use for Borda!" I think that was the most interesting part. I wonder how the various Condorcet methods would hold up in handwriting

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-25 Thread Blake Cretney
Dear Markus and Mike, On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Markus Schulze wrote: Mike wrote (25 Oct 2000): An example: Steve said that, when Tideman(wv) and BeatpathWinner give different results, the Tideman(wv) winner pairbeats the BeatpathWinner winner in the vast majority of cases. So if the

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-25 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Mike, you wrote (25 Oct 2000): An example: Steve said that, when Tideman(wv) and BeatpathWinner give different results, the Tideman(wv) winner pairbeats the BeatpathWinner winner in the vast majority of cases. So if the people could choose between those winners, they'd choose the

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-24 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bart Ingles wrote: My thought while reading it was, "Gee, I'm glad to see someone found a legitimate use for Borda!" Rob L. replied: I think that was the most interesting part. I wonder how the various Condorcet methods would hold up in handwriting recognition, etc.

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-20 Thread Bart Ingles
Rob Lanphier wrote: This is a great article. I don't entirely agree on the conclusion (Donald Saari's work on Borda again comes out pretty favorably), but the fact that the reporter also talked to Brams makes it a much more balanced article than the piece in the Economist a few months

Re: [EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-20 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bart Ingles wrote: From the November '00 issue of Discover. Should be understandable even to someone who has difficulty grasping the concept of approval voting: http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html Rob L. wrote: This is a great

[EM] Discover Magazine article

2000-10-19 Thread Bart Ingles
From the November '00 issue of Discover. Should be understandable even to someone who has difficulty grasping the concept of approval voting: http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html