Reverse Symmetry Criterion

David Catchpole s349436 at student.uq.edu.au
Tue Mar 27 00:23:16 PST 2001


Freck, freck, freck. Bored and tired and forgetful. Should be C gets
excluded with the highest reverse Borda score and A wins. Freck. Freck.
Freck.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David Catchpole wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Mr. Harper wrote-
> >
> > Here's a stupid example:
> >
> > 11 A>B>C>D>E>F
> > 10 B>C>A>E>F>D
> > 9 C>A>B>F>D>E
>
> Let's see... who's the Nanson winner?
>
> 59	A
> 59	B
> 62	C
>
> If A gets excluded, B wins. If B gets excluded, C wins. Geez, it _is_ a
> good stupid example. No real point to this - just bored.
>
> >
> > Now there's neither a Condorcet Winner, nor a Condorcet Loser, but I reckon
> > any
> > method which elects the same person as both the best and worst candidate has
> > to
> > have made a mistake somewhere...
> > ---
> > D- Can any of the choices get a YES majority ???
> >
> > Each of the ABC group obviously defeats each of the DEF group.
> >
> > An ABC type group is called a Smith Set-- its members each defeat the members
> > of other sets/groups.
> >
> >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "You have the right to scream your head off. Should you give up the right
> to scream your head off, someone who screams _their_ head off will be
> provided for you."
> 	Grouch cop, "Elmo in Grouchland"
>
>

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"You have the right to scream your head off. Should you give up the right
to scream your head off, someone who screams _their_ head off will be
provided for you."
	Grouch cop, "Elmo in Grouchland"



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