> > > maybe, once in a blue moon, there will be a cycle involving Candidates > Rock, Paper, and Scissors, and then Ranked-Pairs, which is simple, will do > just as well as Schulze.
I'd like to point out that contemporary research is tending to agree that Condorcet top-cycles, especially ones larger than 3, are much rarer than previously imagined; and that the common "impartial culture" model radically exaggerates their probability. Read Regenwetter's work, for instance Regenwetter, Michel, Bernard Grofman, Anna Popova, William Messner, Clintin P. Davis-Stober, and Daniel R. Cavagnaro. “Behavioural Social Choice: a Status Report.” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences* 364, no. 1518 (March 27, 2009): 833–843. Jameson
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