[EM] Voting-System Choice for Polls (Just one more thing I want to say)

[Michael Ossipoff]

Steve Epply did more than adopt wv. Steve added a carefully-devised set of
tie-solutions, to guarantee various criterion-compliances, even with a very
small electorate.

And, as for wv vs margins:

The improvement of wv over margns in incomparably greater than the
difference between Beatpath & Margins.

And, though some might not agree, because it depends on which criteria you
like best, I suggest that the improvement of wv over margins is also
greater than the difference between Beatpath and Smith//Condorcet or
MinMax(wv).

With those 2 improvements, MAM deserves a different name from Tideman  RP.

Besides, Maximize Affirmed Majorities is a much more descriptive name than
Ranked-Pairs. (Not that Ranked-Pairs isn't descriptive at all. It just
isn't *as* descriptive.)

Michael Ossipoff

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Toby Pereira <tdp201b at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Using winning votes instead of margins doesn't warrant a new name. It's
> just a variant of ranked pairs. If I decided my favourite method was
> Schulze but with margins (it's not by the way), I would call it Schulze
> with margins. I wouldn't come up with a new name for it and present it as a
> new invention.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
>
> And, by the way, you're calling MAM  "Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method".
>
> Incorrect. I don't advocate Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method.
>
> MAM is different from Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method in at least two
> important ways:
>
> 1. MAM uses winning-votes (wv) as its measure of defeat-strength.
>
> 2. MAM incorporates tiebreaking bylaws that give it desirable
> criterion-compliances even with a very small electtorate. ...something that
> can be important in polls.
>
> ...especially my EM polls :^)
>
>
>
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