[EM] Better than Condorcet?

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 05.02.2022 19:02, Colin Champion wrote:
> Kristofer wrote: "The best VSE-wise method I know of is Sinkhorn, which
> is not Condorcet either..." I added it to my big evaluation and found it
> to be somewhat weaker than Borda.
> 
> The reason for expecting better from it is Warren D. Smith's own
> evaluation in which the Borda count itself outperforms Condorcet
> methods.[1] It appears that Smith's voting model is not spatial in the
> conventional sense, but instead an unexplained multidimensional model in
> which a dot product takes the place of distance; this model is outlined
> in his "Range voting" paper of 2000. So the poor showing of the Sinkhorn
> method in my own evaluation is not inconsistent with its good showing in
> Smith's.

Fair enough. This is why reproduction is important :-)

-km