Kathy Dopp wrote:
From: rob brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] Can someone point me at an example of the
nonmonotonicity of IRV?
Are you aware that in going to a doctor to treat an injury, you can get in a
car accident and get injured some more? Why would anyone go to a doctor
On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:43 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
There's also the it smells fishy that nonmonotonicity - of any
kind or frequency - evokes. I think that's stronger for
nonmonotonicity than for things like strategy vulnerability because
it's an error that appears in the method
I agree IRV can rarely make your vote work against you (about 1 chance on
1000).
How about a system that can make a candidate wanted by a majority lose
(about 1 chance on 5)!!
That's what FPTP can do when political strategists present a clone of the
favourite candidate to split the votes...
Kathy Dopp wrote (Sat. Aug.10):
Well perhaps there are other voting methods where ranking my first
choice candidate below my last choice candidate helps my first choice
candidate to win more than vice-versa, and I would oppose any method
that did that.
Kathy,
What exactly do mean here by more
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Kathy Dopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently not recommending *any* until I have more time and
inclination to sit down to thoroughly study all the alternatives. I
know that IRV is a really bad method as applied to real life
elections, and I suspect that
