Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I'm sure you know - as it was discussed during the soc ctte debates > at Debian - the election method used here fails proportionality.
Why be sure? Assumption is the mother of all ... To be clear, I didn't know Condorcet-SPI was already discussed - I'm not very good at reading political intricacies (I'm much more interested in the effects than the theory, as long as effects don't include obvious bugs), so maybe I didn't recognise it. Also, I'd forget my head if it weren't screwed on, I seldom read all of those debates and I don't remember seeing a summary. (note 1) Where's that discussion, please? Anyway, should/how could we try to fix this proportionality failure? Also, anyone want to try something like Principal Components Analysis on common aspects of the platforms? (note 1: Searching a while found the email archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/06/msg00318.html which mentions "another mail" but nothing more to find it! Other mails that month don't look obviously about SPI's method, like http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/06/msg00261.html A search for mails about SPI from author kaijanaho found a 1999 one.) Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
