[EM] Markus re: Steve Eppley

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

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Markus--

You wrote:

in the past, you have always considered Steve Eppley to be
authoritative. What do you think about the fact that he
promotes Ranked Pairs at his web pages? What do you think
about his arguments for Ranked Pairs against the beat path
method?

I reply:

Steve Eppley advocates Ranked-Pairs(wv). What makes you
think that I oppose that? Some 1996 posting about
"Tideman's method"?

In more recent postings, I've said that I like RP.

And, during the time when RP vs BeatpathWinner was being
fiercely debated, I kept saying that those 2 methods,
provided that they use wv, have no significant difference
in merit. That's been my position for years.

It seems to me that the choice of which of those 2
methods to propose, RP or BeatpathWinner/CSSD, should
be based entirely on which is more winnable with your
audience. I've been saying that for years too.

Therefore, I'd propose RP as a public proposal, due
to its briefer definition. And I'd offer BeatpathWinner
to organizations & committees, due to its elegantly
simple & brief algorithm & computer program.

You continued:

What do you think about the fact that although he
uses a similar strategy concept he promotes a different
method than you do?

I reply:

He doesn't promote a different method than I do. I
promote BeatpathWinner/CSSD & RP. BeatpathWinner/CSSD
to organizations & committees, and RP for public proposals.

Mike Ossipoff





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