> > 2. We drop the weakest defeats from the Schwartz set until there > > are no more defeats in the Schwartz set:
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:41:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > IMO this "Schwarz set" jargon just comes out of the blue here and is > likely going to be sort of jarring to the uninitiated. I think a > sentence or so of preamble to thie clause would be a good idea. > > Here's my suggestion: > > We use the Condorcet voting method with Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential > Dropping, along with modifications to accomodate quorum and > supermajority requirements, described below. We determine possible > winning options by constructing a Schwartz set; we then drop the weakest > defeats from the Schwartz set until there are no more defeats in the > Schwartz set. > > (I think it is good, but not essential, to credit our system's origins.) Um... Could you spell out your reasoning a bit more, here? I mean, are we trying to bore people to sleep so they won't be jarred by new concepts, or what? > > i. A defeat (R,S) is dropped by making N(S,R) the same as N(R,S). > > Once a defeat is dropped it must stay dropped. > > Replace second sentence: > > Once a defeat is dropped from the Schwartz set it is never re-added. I'm not comfortable with this because there is not just one schwartz set but a sequence of them. So it's possible that an option could appear in a later schwartz set through an interpretation where only the most recent schwartz set is considered when deciding which defeats are currently dropped. > > 3. The winning option is picked from among the options T in the > > final Schwartz set where N(T,X) is larger than the quorum Q and > > X is the default option. If there is no quorum, or if no quorum > > has been specified, Q is 1. If there's more than one option to > > (really minor stylistic annoying nitpcik ) s/there's/there is/ Would you believe I spent almost fifteen minutes waffling back and forth on that very issue? > > pick, from, the person with the casting vote picks the winner > > The first comma is extraneous. Yeah, definitely too many commas there. > > from these options. If there's no options to pick from, the > > s/there's/there are/ Ah... you're no fun. ;-) Ok, I'll expunge "there's" from the next draft (probably Thursday). -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
