Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Ketchum
What I wrote last time is about as simple as you get. Canceling the smallest margin cancels a three-member cycle, leaving the strongest member as CW. Could take more canceling for more complex, and thus rarer, cycles. Dave Ketchum On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote

Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Dave Ketchum wrote: Trying some fresh thinking for Condorcet, and what anyone should be able to see in the X*X array. I am ignoring labels such as Schulze and Ranked Pairs - this is human-doable and minimal effort - especially with normally having a CW and most cycles having the minimal three

Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-09 Thread Dave Ketchum
Trying some fresh thinking for Condorcet, and what anyone should be able to see in the X*X array. I am ignoring labels such as Schulze and Ranked Pairs - this is human-doable and minimal effort - especially with normally having a CW and most cycles having the minimal three members. 1. L

Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-08 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On Nov 8, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: ... Unlike FairVote et al, we don't have a strong voice saying "Hey public, if you think Plurality sucks, implement [method here]". but if Fair

Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-08 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: robert bristow-johnson wrote: i don't think a sequence of elimination rounds would be okay, but the method of picking the biggest loser for each round needs to be debated. i am not sure what would be b

Re: [EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

2009-11-05 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: robert bristow-johnson wrote: ... simplicity and sufficient transparency is important to have public confidence. otherwise i would probably just jump on the Schulze bandwagon. Ranked Pairs might be good here. If you can get the