[EM] Beatpath GMC compliance a mistaken standard? (was GMC compliance...)

2009-01-09 Thread Chris Benham
Marcus, You wrote (8 Jan 2009): Statement #1: Criterion X does not imply criterion Y. Statement #2: Criterion X and criterion Y are incompatible. Statement #1 does not imply statement #2. But in your 29 Dec 2008 mail, you mistakenly assume that statement #1 implies statement #2. No I didn't.

Re: [EM] Beatpath GMC compliance a mistaken standard? (was GMC compliance...)

2009-01-09 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Chris Benham, you are the only one who uses the fact, that criterion X doesn't imply criterion Y, as an argument against criterion X. That's the same as rejecting monotonicity for not implying independence of clones. Your argumentation is not complicated. It is simply false. Markus Schulze

[EM] Beatpath GMC compliance a mistaken standard? (was GMC compliance...)

2009-01-08 Thread Chris Benham
Marcus,   You wrote (29 Dec,2008):   You wrote: All three candidates have a majority beatpath to each other, so GMC says that any of them are allowed to win. No! Beatpath GMC doesn't say that any of them are allowed to win; beatpath GMC only doesn't exclude any of them from winning. I can't see

Re: [EM] Beatpath GMC compliance a mistaken standard? (was GMC compliance...)

2009-01-08 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Chris Benham, you wrote (29 Dec 2008): I think that compliance with GMC is a mistaken standard in the sense that the best methods should fail it. The GMC concept is spectacularly vulnerable to Mono-add-Plump! [Situation #1] 25: AB 26: BC 23: CA 04: C 78 ballots (majority