[EM] Learning from IRV's success

[Juho Laatu]

On 8.7.2011, at 17.16, Andy Jennings wrote:

> Also, I think IRV's seemingly intuitive nature has something to do with it. For those who *did* investigate more deeply, IRV seemed sensible, too: instead of holding a bunch of expensive runoffs, collect all the required information at once and then act as if there were runoffs. That fails to account for the dynamics between the rounds, but that's a subtle detail and might easily be missed.
> 
> I, too, must admit that IRV has a natural feeling to it.  I had a friend who described to me a system he thought of "on his own" and he ended up describing IRV.

I agree with that (as one reason). It is a bit  like natural selection, or a like fight of strong men where the weakest ones must leave the arena first.

Juho




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