[EM] Condorcet should be called Instant Round Robin (IRR)

[Paul Kislanko]

The only problem is that there are many "Condorcet" methods and none of them
are "round-robin" methods if they are based upon translating a ranked ballot
into a pairwise matrix.

A round-robin would have a ballot format that allows the voters to enter
their pairwise preferences pairwaise, as Jobst has suggested many times. No
"condorcet" method I've seen described on this list would meet my definition
of a "round robin". 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:election-methods-electorama.com-bounces at electorama.com
> ] On Behalf Of Jan Kok
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 3:13 PM
> To: election-methods-electorama.com at electorama.com
> Subject: [EM] Condorcet should be called Instant Round Robin (IRR)
> 
> I strongly urge everyone to get into the habit of calling 
> Condorcet methods
> Instand Round Robin (IRR) methods.  The Instant Round Robin 
> name is far more
> descriptive than "Condorcet".  I think the concept of a round robin
> tournament is widely understood, even among people who are 
> not sports fans.
> The general public will feel a lot more comfortable with a 
> voting method
> that is tied to a familiar concept (round robin tournaments), 
> than to a
> method with an unfamiliar name that a lot of Americans don't 
> even know how
> to pronounce.
> 
> Instant Round Robin Voting (IRRV) is another possible name, 
> almost equally
> good.  I think IRR is slightly preferable to IRRV because 1) 
> it's shorter 2)
> IRRV might be mis-heard as IRV, and IRRV might be mistaken as 
> a typo for
> IRV.  IRR is a little less likely to be confused with IRV, I think.
> 
> Similarly, the Condorcet Winner could be called the Beats-All 
> Winner.  It's
> a lot easier for a newcomer to the subject of election 
> methods to understand
> and remember the idea of a Beats-All Winner than a Condorcet Winner.
> 
> - Jan
> 
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