Rob:
Based on reading Saari's most recent books, my understanding is that the
Condorcet method, essentially voting for pairs, is the ONLY method (besides
perhaps some strange, unreasonable and completely undemocratic contrivances)
which satisfies IIA. Perhaps you are using the same name for something else.
The problem is that no method can satisfy both IIA and the condition that it
always produces non-cyclic outcomes.
SB
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:21:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Rob LeGrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Finding the probable best candidate?
>
> Steve,
>
[...]
> than being independent of irrelevant alternatives. In fact, no Condorcet
> method is independent of irrelevant alternatives, although many are
> independent
> of clones, which I see as an important advantage over Borda.
[...]
=====
"Democracy"?:
http://www1.umn.edu/irp/images/postcardAd2.jpg
AR-NewsWI, a news service for Wisconsin animal advocates:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AR-NewsWI/
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
http://sports.yahoo.com
