Dear Chris Benham,
you wrote (14 Aug 2009):
What I don't understand is the difference between
winning votes (which I'm familiar with) and
votes for, as they are both defined on page 13
of Markus Schulze's paper, pasted below.
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf
Kevin Venzke and
Marcus,
I have some questions about your draft (dated 23 June 2009) Shulze method
paper, posted:
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf
On page 13 you define some of the ways of measuring defeat strengths,
two of which are Votes For and Votes Against:
snip
Example 5 (
then the strength
Hi Chris,
--- En date de : Jeu 13.8.09, Chris Benham cbenha...@yahoo.com.au a écrit :
I am a little bit confused as to the
exact meaning of the phrase the absolute number ..of
votes for candidate E.
Does the number of votes for
E mean 'the number of ballots on which E is ranked
above
Kevin,
Or does it mean something that can be
read purely from the pairwise matrix?
It's the latter, read from the matrix. Absolute number is in contrast to
using margin or ratio.
Thanks for that, but it isn't the concept of absolute number that I'm having
trouble with.
What I don't understand
