[EM] Comments on the declaration and on a few voting systems
Juho Laatu
juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 14 13:11:22 PDT 2011
If that one example set of votes is "bad enough" for MMPO, then how about this example for PC(wv)?
49 A
48 B > C
03 C
Juho
P.S. Welcome back
On 14.10.2011, at 22.40, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> > Venzke's MMPO example
>
> > 9999 A > B = C
> > 1 A = C > B
> > 1 B = C > A
> > 9999 B > A = C
> .
> > and C wins. That seems quite counterintuitive.
> .
> .
> Yes. C is the Condorcet loser.
>
> But is Kevin sure that C wins in that example?
> .
> A is the CW. As I propose MMPO, it starts out looking for a CW. It would choose
> A right away.
> .
> Otherwise, if MMPO didn't start out by looking for a CW, that example would give a
> tie between A and C. That wouldn't be good, because the example has only one CW.
> .
> In that way, PC chooses the CW, who is A, more naturally; while MMPO can choose the CW
> only by having the CW-search added as a special rule.
> .
> So there's no doubt that PC chooses in a more elegant way, in that example, though
> MMPO, as I define it, chooses the CW too, due to Condorcet Criterion compliance
> having been "lexocographically" added to it by me.
>
> Maybe PC is a more natural, and therefore more winnable, proposal than MMPO.
>
> Thanks for the example.
>
>
>
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