Dear participants, Mike Ossipoff wrote (15 Jan 2003): > RP can choose a winner that isn't a member of the initial > Schwartz set, and that's somewhat unaesthetic.
Ranked Pairs cannot choose decisively a candidate who isn't in the Schwartz set. Whether a candidate who isn't in the Schwartz set can be a random winner depends on how indecisive situations are solved. By the way: In Eric's example, the Schwartz set consists of A, B, C, D, and F and Ranked Pairs is indecisive between A, B, C, and D. Therefore, there isn't anything "unaesthetical" in Eric's example. Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
