[EM] Top Three Condorcet

[Forest Simmons]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote:

[...]

> All of this because I objected to Forest using "Condorcet" in a
> method name when the method involved ratings (he uses the word
> "grade" which seems to me to be a synonym for rating).

Well, let that be a lesson to you :|]

To clear up the misunderstanding, "Top Three Condorcet" is not a method
name, but is the name of a class of methods that have in common one thing:
they use Condorcet's method to choose the winner from among three
finalists.  At that stage (if not before) only the relative rankings (with
equality allowed) of the three finalists is used as input to Condorcet.