[EM] Paper by Ron Rivest

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Markus Schulze wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> here is an interesting paper by Ron Rivest:
> 
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/RivestShen-AnOptimalSingleWinnerPreferentialVotingSystemBasedOnGameTheory.pdf
> 
> He gets to the conclusion that the Schulze
> method is "nearly perfect" (page 12).

I'm curious now as to how often, say, Ranked Pairs would disagree with 
GT/GTD/GTS.

Do you consider the GT agreement a worthwhile metric, i.e. that (absent 
criteria problems) methods closer to GT are better?