On Jun 24, 2011, at 4:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The first time I heard the phrase "True Majority Winner" was in
the Scientific American article six or eight
years ago on Condorcet Voting. The point of the article was
that if you believe in majority rule, you
should prefer electing the CW over any other alternative. But at
the end of the article (in order to give a
definite example of a decisive Condorcet method) they proposed a
method that turned out to be
Copeland with a Borda tie breaker, i.e. just slightly different
(and almost as bad as) Black.
Note that Copeland with a Borda tie breaker is not quite as bad
as Black for the same reason that
Beatpath(covering, wv) is slightly better than Beatpath(wv).
The Scientific American article I was thinking of was actually seven
years ago, and ironically, one of the
authors was Eric Maskin!
The title was "The Fairest Vote of All."
i coulda told you that (that's what motivated me to comment). but you
were able to remember much more about it than me.
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r b-j [email protected]
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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