[EM] Thoughts on Burial

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

How can you say that a few examples contradict the qualifier "most?"

And how can you say without qualification that there is no motivation for
dishonesty in 2-man pairwise polls?

> > I believe that Jameson Quinn is right when he says that most
> Condorcet cycles are probably artificial,
> i.e. they are caused by strategic truncation or strategic burial.
>
> --For a real life example of a Condorcet cycle in a large
> national election, see
> http://rangevoting.org/Romania2009.html
> Contrary to Simmons' conjecture/intuition, this cycle seems to have
> been not "strategic," it was "honest" -- because the evidence
> for the
> cycle consists of pairwise-poll data, and there is no motivation for
> dishonesty in 2-man pairwise polls.
>
> Further, other real-world cycle examples (?) are noted,
> discussed 2nd
> half of section 4.
>
> --
> Warren D. Smith