On 10/30/12 4:45 PM, Richard Fobes wrote:
As long as Michael has mistakenly posted this DM article on the forum,
I'll use this opportunity to say to Adrian that I have stopped reading
Michael's articles at Democracy Chronicles for the reasons below.
(And often I delete his posts here without reading them.)
His DM articles go off into a world of his own, including his own
terminology (e.g. TUC and ICT). Also there are too many sentences for
which his intended meaning is unclear (e.g. sentence #2 here). Also
the topics jump around so quickly that it's dizzying. Most
importantly he avoids explaining some very important voting-method
concepts, yet makes indirect references to those concepts (e.g. none
of the DM articles have yet described the concept of Condorcet
compliance [and its advantage], yet he refers to disadvantages of
Condorcet methods).
I'm just wanting to keep things real, and let you know that he does
not represent the views of at least some election-method experts.
hey, i plonked MIKE OSSIPOFF back when his name was all caps. it's
probably that i have less patience (and less scholarship) than most of
the folks on this list. i also plonked Kathy Dopp and that guy that
went on and on... can't remember his name. he was on Wikipedia too.
and like me, he got banned.
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