Forest: Saari's approach doesn't seem to be to "maximize" this or that fairness criterion at all. It is not an "axiomatic" approach. Instead, he strictly focuses on the ballots themselves, and looks for symmetries, such as reversals and circular triplets, which should cancel out and produce complete ties. He scrutinizes all positional and pairwise procedures on those grounds, and iterative extensions of those methods.
SB > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:48:25 -0800 (PST) > From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Election_Methods-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Finding the probable best candidate > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Steve Barney wrote: > > > > > Most preferred according to the information in the ordinal preference > ballots. > > [...] > Just what aspect of the information are we supposed to maximize to find > the "best candidate according to the information"? > > Forest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
