Juho wrote:
Many of the criteria would be nice to have. One must however remember
that often they have two sides. Winning something in some area may mean
losing something in another area (e.g. the LNH property of IRV has been
discussed widely on this list recently) especially when trying to
Kathy Dopp wrote:
Thanks Kristofer for the explanations. Do you know a good place that
discusses the Ranked Pairs method of resolving cycles, or all the
methods of resolving cycles? I would still like an example of a
spoiler in Condorcet no matter how unlikely if possible. Thank you.
Juho wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Jonathan Lundell wrote:
In that case it might be a good starting point to define spoiler,
so we know what we've found when we find it.
What's an example of an IRV spoiler who's not a pretty strong
candidate?
A very
Kathy Dopp wrote:
James,
Your formulas below are only correct in the case that voters are
allowed to rank all the candidates who run for an election contest.
That may be true in Australia, but is not true in the US where
typically voters are allowed to rank up to only three candidates.
As a
Kathy Dopp wrote:
Jonathan,
Monotonicity is a mathematical concept that is fairly simple to
describe. There is non-decreasing monotonicity, strictly increasing
monotonicity, non-increasing monotonicity, etc. Arrow describes the
concept re. elections fairly well in one of his fairness
Steven E. Landsburg (author of The Armchair Economist), had an
interesting problem here:
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/21/office-politics/ (in reference
to an original question of the New York Times ethics column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-Ethicist-t.html)
On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Juho wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Jonathan Lundell wrote:
In that case it might be a good starting point to define spoiler,
so we know what we've found when we find it.
What's an example of an
Thanks again Kristofer for the explanations. Terrific.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM,
election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com wrote:
From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no
To: kathy.d...@gmail.com
Kathy Dopp wrote:
Thanks Kristofer for the explanations. Do you know a
At 09:52 PM 1/22/2010, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
now remember in the case we're discussing here, there is only two
candidates. again, what consequence to the outcome of the election
(that is, who of A or B wins) occurs whether a ballot is marked
A (and B is last by default) or is marked AB?
