[EM] calculating margins in condorcet
Ernest Prabhakar
drernie at mac.com
Mon Apr 19 21:40:16 PDT 2004
Hi Curt,
On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:19 PM, Curt Siffert wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to figure out a way to calculate margins for multiple
> candidates in a Condorcet-counted election, normalized to 100%.
I do it via pairwise ratios for each step. So, if we have an ordering
A > B > C > D, where, say:
A/B = 300/200
B/C = 250/100
C/D = 200/20
Then I would normalize that as:
A: 300
B: 200
C: 80
D: 8
I don't know if it is "fair", but it is well-defined, and has the
useful property that the 'normalizd votes' for the first two candidates
equal actual votes.
-- Ernie P.
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