On 1/30/2013 2:21 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
... For instance, the LNHe failure of such traditional unimproved Condorcet (TUC) methods, such as Beatpath, Ranked-Pairs, etc. is admitted by most to be a disadvantage.
To anyone here who is isn't already aware, Michael Ossipoff makes statements about what other participants here believe, yet frequently those statements do not reflect what participants here actually believe.
To repeat what has been said here many times, different election-method experts have different opinions about which criterion failures ("disadvantages") are more important than other criterion failures.
In other words, Michael's opinions about which criteria are more important than others does not reflect the group's opinions.
As a more advanced clarification, research has not yet been done to identify _how_ _often_ each method fails each criterion. Those calculations are very difficult to figure out how to do (in a meaningful way). After that research has been done, it may turn out that a method fails a "significant" criterion relatively rarely (i.e. in cases that seldom occur). This means that criteria failures may not be as simple as the fail-or-not-fail checklist approach implies.
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