Hmmm, ok.<br>
<br>
Obviously though, if A has 8 pairwise wins, B has 7, and everyone else
has less.....A will be the winner no matter what, right?
Regardless of how close A's wins are and how large B's majorities are?<br><br>
If that isn't true than I must totally misunderstand the concept of a Condorcet winner.<br>
<br>
What system would you prefer? I'm a tad confused, because I
thought all well-known Condorcet methods begin with a pairwise matrix.<br>
<br>
-rob<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Kislanko</b> <<a href="mailto:kislanko@airmail.net">kislanko@airmail.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>"<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Candidates A, B and C all have 8 pairwise wins. D has 7.
Could D still be chosen as the winner by any "reasonable" method?</font><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">"</font></font></span></span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><span></span></span></font> </div></span>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><span>Sure. D's 7 pairwise
wins could be by a large enough majority that the "extra" pairwise win that A,
B, and C have over the fringe candidate that beats D by 1 vote makes the "8" vs
"7" irrelevant.</span></span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><span></span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><span>This is kind of why I
don't like any counting method that BEGINS with the pairwise matrix. Some
systems would eliminated D when all of A, B, and C are real dogs that no
majority likes.</span></span></font></div></blockquote></div>