On Jan 28, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Steve Eppley wrote:
By the way, I detest using terms like "defeat" and "winning votes" when referring to pairwise majority outranking.
Yeah, I agree those terms get a bit geeky. I'll try to find a better phrase.
Those terms are misleading since a candidate ranked below another by a majority is not really "defeated" and may actually be the one elected. In the social choice literature, a common phrase for winning votes is "the size of the supporting coalition" (or the shorter "support size") where the term "support" is defined in the pairwise relative sense. May I suggest replacing "wv" with "ssc" (size of supporting coalition) and replacing "margins" with "ssc-soc" (size of supporting coalition minus size of opposing coalition)?
I do like the term 'pairwise majority' - I may use that.
-- Ernie P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caltech '95
ps When were you at Caltech?
---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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