Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> In any event, as I stated before, I had dropped the use of "preferred"
> in favor of "beat path" because "beat path" is used in the technical
> literature on voting systems and seems to have a precise definition
> which agrees with the definition I'm using.

Yup, I just found it incredibly confusing trying to remember if a beat
path from A to B meant A beats C, beats D, beats B, or the other way
around.

> > It might be better to recast the calculation of the "Schwartz set"
> > in terms of "defeats" rather than "beats".
> The definition of schwartz set I used requires transitive closure, and is
> thus tied to the term "beat path".  Other than that, I suspect you
> could be right.

Well, "defeat path" then :)

So what's the draft look like now? How many years did it take for us to
manage to agree on this? :)

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Why the default option is special

[Branden Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:39:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's
> > pretty clear that [1] is better than [2].
> > When the majority of voters do not agree that something should be done
> > it's pretty clear that [2] is better than [1].
> 
> Okay, that makes sense.

Why did you trunctate 100+ lines of your message before posting the last
line of it?  ;-)

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Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> In any event, as I stated before, I had dropped the use of "preferred"
> in favor of "beat path" because "beat path" is used in the technical
> literature on voting systems and seems to have a precise definition
> which agrees with the definition I'm using.

Yup, I just found it incredibly confusing trying to remember if a beat
path from A to B meant A beats C, beats D, beats B, or the other way
around.

> > It might be better to recast the calculation of the "Schwartz set"
> > in terms of "defeats" rather than "beats".
> The definition of schwartz set I used requires transitive closure, and is
> thus tied to the term "beat path".  Other than that, I suspect you
> could be right.

Well, "defeat path" then :)

So what's the draft look like now? How many years did it take for us to
manage to agree on this? :)

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Why the default option is special

[Branden Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:39:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's
> > pretty clear that [1] is better than [2].
> > When the majority of voters do not agree that something should be done
> > it's pretty clear that [2] is better than [1].
> 
> Okay, that makes sense.

Why did you trunctate 100+ lines of your message before posting the last
line of it?  ;-)

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Debian GNU/Linux   |pound of antipasto, would they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |cancel out, leaving him still
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