2011/7/8 Andy Jennings <[email protected]> > Also, I think IRV's seemingly intuitive nature has something to do with it. >> For those who *did* investigate more deeply, IRV seemed sensible, too: >> instead of holding a bunch of expensive runoffs, collect all the required >> information at once and then act as if there were runoffs. That fails to >> account for the dynamics between the rounds, but that's a subtle detail and >> might easily be missed. >> > > I, too, must admit that IRV has a natural feeling to it. I had a friend > who described to me a system he thought of "on his own" and he ended up > describing IRV. >
If "most likely to be independently reinvented" is the criterion, Borda wins by a country mile. Bucklin is also compelling that way. JQ
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