[EM] margins axiom

[James Green-Armytage]

Sorry, I just said that Blake's argument treated the fairness of margins
as an axiom in itself, but now I realize that he does provide a specific
justification for it.

I quote from
http://lists.topica.com/lists/RankedPairs/read/message.html?mid=1600781094&sort=d&start=15

Blake wrote:
>The argument for using margins is fairly straight-forward. If the
>voters on the winning side are evidence that a proposition is true, than
>the voters on the losing side are evidence against it. Therefore, it
>makes sense to consider both when deciding our confidence in the
>decision. That was Condorcet's approach. View the election in terms of
>evidence and probability. That is my approach as well. However not
>everyone agrees.

	This is a good point. However, I still think that the strategic issue
gets more priority. When Condorcet made this probabilistic argument, I
doubt that he was taking strategic manipulation into account.