Dear Mike, I wrote (16 March 2005): > I replied that it cannot be said that you proposed wv > methods in general because you didn't propose a general > concept.
You wrote (17 March 2005): > But I did propose a "general concept". As I said in my > previouis posting about this, I clearly and unmistakeably > introduced and proposed wv as a way of measuring the > strength of defeats, and advocated wv as the best way > to measure the strength of defeats. And I told of the > advantages of wv as a measure of defeat-strength. You proposed wv, but only in connection with the MinMax tie-breaking strategy. You didn't propose wv in general, since GMC isn't satisfied by other wv methods than MinMax(wv). If you don't agree with this then please post a reference where you propose wv before 1997 for another tie-breaking strategy than the MinMax tie-breaking strategy. Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
