Hello Ken, On Jun 10, 2005, at 19:07, Ken Kuhlman wrote:
So, CIBR appears to be less than ideal, which stems from the fact that the weakest candidate isn't necessarily eliminated first.
I'm not sure what the negative effect of not eliminating the weakest first are. But I just want to point out that the structure that the correlation derives from the given votes looks very static to me. One could just run the correlation analysis through and not eliminate anyone while doing it. The end result would be a tree like structure of candidates where different branches represent different groupings/ideologies.
(This kind of static information may be more useful to some comparison based methods than to the runoff type thinking that CIBR represents. But this just reflects the fact that I think that correlation is a useful tool also for other methods.)
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