Mike wrote: > 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.
Yes, Schulze's Method is what I would call Schulze(wtv), as opposed to Schulze(m) (what Blake called Path Voting) and Schulze(wv) (what Mike calls BeatpathWinner). I use the name Schulze to refer to this class of methods. I realize that SSD is not strictly equivalent to Cloneproof SSD, which is equivalent to BeatpathWinner, but I associated SSD with Schulze since I didn't consider the distiction important to make in the context of that post. > 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. Similarly, I use Simpson to define a class of methods that are all equivalent when there are no tied preferences. Simpson(m) is what Blake calls Minmax and Simpson(wv) is what Mike calls PC. I mentioned these terms in that post because it's the terminology that I use at my online voting calculator. At http://www.onr.com/user/honky98/rbvote/desc.html you can find my informal definitions of the methods used. Please let me know if you find any errors on that page. ===== Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aggies.org/honky98/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
