[EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting
Bart Ingles
bartman at netgate.net
Sun Sep 19 18:01:28 PDT 2004
Steve Eppley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Paul K wrote about my suggestion to drop the V from IRRV:
>>But... for the same reason there shouldn't be a "V" on
>>the end of IRV. It should be IRO for instant run off.
>
> Years ago, some people did refer to it as IRO. But runoff
> is the correct term; it's not two words. Despite that,
> I agree IRO is a better name than IRV. IR would be too
> short, probably, since IR already means infrared and
> perhaps dozens of other things too.
IRO also stands for "independence of rejecting the outcast variants", a
property similar to IIA. I don't quite understand the distinction, but
Nurmi describes it using a diagram resembling a fried egg ("Comparing
Voting Systems", Hannu Nurmi, 1987.
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