[EM] Article: Answers to some traditional Condorcet arguments

[robert bristow-johnson]

On 10/30/12 4:45 PM, Richard Fobes wrote:
> As long as Michael has mistakenly posted this DM article on the forum, 
> I'll use this opportunity to say to Adrian that I have stopped reading 
> Michael's articles at Democracy Chronicles for the reasons below.  
> (And often I delete his posts here without reading them.)
>
> His DM articles go off into a world of his own, including his own 
> terminology (e.g. TUC and ICT).  Also there are too many sentences for 
> which his intended meaning is unclear (e.g. sentence #2 here).  Also 
> the topics jump around so quickly that it's dizzying.  Most 
> importantly he avoids explaining some very important voting-method 
> concepts, yet makes indirect references to those concepts (e.g. none 
> of the DM articles have yet described the concept of Condorcet 
> compliance [and its advantage], yet he refers to disadvantages of 
> Condorcet methods).
>
> I'm just wanting to keep things real, and let you know that he does 
> not represent the views of at least some election-method experts.
>

hey, i plonked MIKE OSSIPOFF back when his name was all caps.  it's 
probably that i have less patience (and less scholarship) than most of 
the folks on this list.  i also plonked Kathy Dopp and that guy that 
went on and on... can't remember his name.  he was on Wikipedia too.  
and like me, he got banned.

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