[EM] Bouricius reply, BR, Tideman, recent USA elections

[robert bristow-johnson]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:

> On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Warren Smith wrote:
>
>> Tideman said IRV was unsupportable if it is feasible to compute
>> pairwise matrix.  That was
>> because Tideman had other voting methods he considered clearly
>> superior to IRV and these methods used the pairwise matrix.    By
>> "clearly superior" I mean, so superior in every respect, that Tideman
>> felt there was no conceivable use for IRV, ever (in situations where
>> it was feasible to compute pariwise matrix) where that use could be
>> "supported."
>> That is what "unsupportable" means.
>
> Tideman ranks IRV highest in resistance to strategy, and generally  
> better than the pairwise methods in lucidity

can someone explain to this layman what the metric "lucidity" is in  
regard to election methods?

> and cost of computation.

and why the cost of computation (as if it takes the official  
computers 10 seconds to crunch the numbers instead of 5) is important  
in modern times?  it's not like the cost is O(2^N) or or O(N!).

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