[EM] Condorcet complicated?

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Thu Oct 14 14:25:00 PDT 2004


At 2:14 PM -0700 10/14/04, bql at bolson.org wrote:
>I've never heard of anyone wanting to take results and map them back 
>to ballots.

There has been at least one study by Dr. Tideman which did exactly this.

It can be a useful thing as long as people take into account the fact 
that there can be many sets of ballots which are capable of producing 
the same pairwise matrix.

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