[EM] Rarity, FBC, Condorcet, comparison of criteria

Juho Laatu juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 7 23:14:51 PDT 2012


On 8.5.2012, at 8.33, Richard Fobes wrote:

> As I've said on this forum before, some studies should be done to compare _how_ _often_ each method fails each criterion.  Those numbers would be quite useful for comparing criteria in terms of importance.  In the meantime, just a checkbox with a "yes" or "no" leaves us partially blind.

Yes, thisis important. Pure on/off classification does not tell the full truth. One should also analyze the impact of each theoretical vulnerability in real life electons. (In theory there can even be situations where the best method fails all and some more criteria than all other methods under consideration.)






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