Yes, that's DMC, just bubble sort the approval order. So the DMC winner is the lowest approval candidate that pairwise beats every candidate with more approval.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jameson Quinn > OK, so what's DMC? Feel free to link to an electowiki > description or old > post, you don't have to rewrite the description. > > Or... well, I guess I can figure it out - it's approval bubble- > sorted by > pairwise. And it's apparently monotone and clone-free, but not > uncovered. So > if the approval order is A>B but B is the pairwise champion > (CW), then a > "caricature of B", B', who beats B but loses to A, can stop B > from winning > DMC, but will not stop them in DMC/Covering Chain. Am I right? That's the idea. > > Still, I think that DMC is "good enough" in practical terms; I > don't think > that the (debatable) benefits of the other methods are worth the extra > complication. "The most-approved candidate who could beat all > more-approved > candidates" is actually pretty easy to understand. > > JQ > > 2010/12/2 > > > My Bad. > > > > I meant DMC (democratic majority choice) not MCA. That's what > I get for > > making > > up names for the sole purpose of making a method sound attractive! > > ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
