On Aug 14, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
Warren has used the term "beats-all winner" for the Condorcet winner.
Hope we can do better.
How about, to stay with the tournament metaphor, "champion winner"?
Also, it has the advantage of sharing the acronym with Condorcet
winner. Perhaps to be clearer, "guaranteed championship winner" -
you could still abbreviate that to "guaranteed CW" and satisfy both
theorists and the general public.
("Guaranteed runoff winner" works too, if you want to sound similar
to IRV.)
Seems to me IRV has made doing like that something to avoid. Anyway,
we don't do runoffs - we do not create a problem that needs to use a
runoff to escape.
"guaranteed" sounds like a dangerous word to include in a label.
"Tournament" sorta fits for we are reporting on lots of races, but I
do not really like that particular word here.
Why not Condorcet? We can brag about having enough sense to use
something good invented so long ago.
Dave Ketchum
JQ
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