Chris Benham wrote:
Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (6 March 2010):
"Another benefit to Ranked Pairs is that you don't have to confuse
matters with WV versus Margins. "
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Kristofer,
Why is that?! That certainly is a benefit of Smith//Approval.
It's not the only method where you don't have to, but it is one of them:
I haven't said RP enjoys this advantage over S//A, but that it does over
the methods where you do have to explain WV (or Margins), e.g. Minmax,
least reversals, whatnot.
The other method mentioned in the post I replied to was Schulze, which
what what against which I intended to contrast this benefit. However, on
a second thought, Schulze is kind of on the border. It does create a WV
matrix (called "d", AFAIK), but it does so explicitly as a part of the
method, and so doesn't mention Margins at all.
<snip>
"For those that like cute names, the WV version we usually call Ranked
Pairs has also been called "Maximum Majority Voting"."
<snip>
Also "Maximum Affirmed Majorities":
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~seppley/
I think the name "Ranked Pairs" normally applies to the Margins version.
Yes, it does; however, on this list, it usually means the WV version.
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