Kristofer: As I said, the purpose of my comment was good-natured agressiveness, to provoke comparison of ICT, Symmetrical ICT, and unimproved Condorcet. I was using an excuse to confrontationally push that comparison.
I claim that such comparison can only favor ICT and Symmetrical ICT in comparison to unimproved Condorcet. But I also misunderstood the purpose of the test that you suggested. I assumed that you were suggesting that that test is needed to test the merit of a voting system, and so I thought that you were requiring Symmetrical ICT to meet more meticulous standards than other methods. Actually of course you were only suggesting a test for finding out if a computer program is without errors. So, now that that's clarified, does anyone think that unimproved Condorcet can be defended in comparison to ICT and Symmetrical ICT? :-) Mike Ossipoff ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
