Rob LG said:
try Simpson (Plain Condorcet) and Schulze (SSD). I reply: So Rob LG believes that Schulze's method is SSD? BeatpathWinner is equivalent to Cloneproof SSD. Cloneproof SSD is a modification of SSD. SSD never meant Cloneproof SSD. And Schulze's method isn't BeatpathWinner anyway. Markus made it clear that Schulze's method considers a tie to be a defeat. A tie can serve as a defeat in a "beatpath", which should, in Schulze's method, be called a "beat-or-tie path". That is why Schulze's method isn't the same as BeatpathWinner. And Rob LG says that PC is Simpson's method. Does that refer to the Simpson-Kramer method, as defined in the Winter '95 _Journal of Economic Perspective_? That method is not the PC that I defined when I defined PC. Or, if Simpson's method is something else, is it this?: 1. If there are 1 or more unbeaten candidates, they win and the count ends. 2. Otherwise, drop the weakest defeat, and go to 1. (If A beats B, the strength of A's defeat of B is measured by the number of voters who voted A over B). [end of definition] If that, or something equivalent, isn't Simpson's method, then Simpson's method isn't PC. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
