> I believe that Jameson Quinn is right when he says that most Condorcet cycles > are probably artificial, i.e. they are caused by strategic truncation or strategic burial.
--For a real life example of a Condorcet cycle in a large national election, see http://rangevoting.org/Romania2009.html Contrary to Simmons' conjecture/intuition, this cycle seems to have been not "strategic," it was "honest" -- because the evidence for the cycle consists of pairwise-poll data, and there is no motivation for dishonesty in 2-man pairwise polls. Further, other real-world cycle examples (?) are noted, discussed 2nd half of section 4. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
