[EM] Rob LG's definitions

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Rob LG said:

try Simpson (Plain Condorcet) and Schulze
(SSD).

I reply:

So Rob LG believes that Schulze's method is SSD?

BeatpathWinner is equivalent to Cloneproof SSD.

Cloneproof SSD is a modification of SSD. SSD never meant
Cloneproof SSD. And Schulze's method isn't BeatpathWinner anyway.

Markus made it clear that Schulze's method considers a tie to be
a defeat. A tie can serve as a defeat in a "beatpath", which
should, in Schulze's method, be called a "beat-or-tie path". That
is why Schulze's method isn't the same as BeatpathWinner.

And Rob LG says that PC is Simpson's method. Does that refer to
the Simpson-Kramer method, as defined in the Winter '95
_Journal of Economic Perspective_? That method is not the PC that
I defined when I defined PC. Or, if Simpson's method is something else,
is it this?:

1. If there are 1 or more unbeaten candidates, they win and the count
   ends.
2. Otherwise, drop the weakest defeat, and go to 1.

(If A beats B, the strength of A's defeat of B is measured by the
number of voters who voted A over B).

[end of definition]

If that, or something equivalent, isn't Simpson's method, then Simpson's 
method isn't PC.

Mike Ossipoff



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