[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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