[EM] MinMax variant

Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Sat Mar 8 23:35:01 PST 2003


Dear Forest,

you wrote (7 March 2003):
> Has anybody ever proposed minimizing the maximum opposition rather than
> minimizing the maximum defeat? I know that theoretically this could elect
> the Condorcet Loser, but it seems very unlikely that it would do so.

Of course, the fact that the MinMax method can elect the Condorcet Loser
has nothing to do with the way the strength of a pairwise comparison is
measured.

Example:

   20 ABCD
   20 BCAD
   20 CABD
   13 DABC
   13 DBCA
   13 DCAB

Markus Schulze



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