[EM] Yee diagrams and Condorcet (was Centrist vs. non-Centrists (was A distance based method))

2011-07-13 Thread Bob Richard
On 7/13/2011 11:14 AM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: Jameson, I'm surprised that you consider a Condorcet method to be too extremist or apt to suffer center squeeze. Think Yee diagrams; all Condorcet methods yield identical diagrams, while center squeeze shows up clearly in methods that allow it.

Re: [EM] Yee diagrams and Condorcet (was Centrist vs. non-Centrists (was A distance based method))

2011-07-13 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Bob Richard wrote: On 7/13/2011 11:14 AM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: Jameson, I'm surprised that you consider a Condorcet method to be too extremist or apt to suffer center squeeze. Think Yee diagrams; all Condorcet methods yield identical diagrams, while center squeeze shows up clearly in

Re: [EM] Yee diagrams and Condorcet (was Centrist vs. non-Centrists (was A distance based method))

2011-07-13 Thread Bob Richard
After looking up some old email threads, it now seems to me that I made a significant mistake in the post below. It is true that the model underlying Yee diagrams guarantees that there will always be a Condorcet winner. But apparently that has nothing to do with the two dimensions being