[EM] Re: Condorcet package

[Kevin Venzke]

Dave,

 --- Dave Ketchum <davek at clarityconnect.com> a écrit : 
> Try:
> 5 a>b
> 2 b>a
> 6 a=b
> By not counting the = we have 5:2
> With counting them    we have 8:5
> 
> The > and < determined that a gets 3 more votes than b - to me, strength 
> of a's win over b.

It's called "Margins" when defeat strength is measured as the vote difference.
With WV, the defeat strength is the number of votes for the winning side; in
this case, it would be 5 votes.

> I have the = making a have a total of 8 votes, useful (I think) in 
> deciding how to untangle cycles, should that be needed.

A potential problem is that it becomes unclear how many people actually 
voted a>b.

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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