On 12/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Venzke</b> <<a href="mailto:stepjak@yahoo.fr">stepjak@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Has anyone ever considered also adding one-half a "point" to each of the<br>> equals?<br><br>Yes. It's equivalent to using margins.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Hi Kevin,<br><br>Not sure I understand what you mean. "Using margins" in what sense?
<br><br>The pairwise matrix is used for lots of things, from an intermediate stage in the calculation of various Condorcet methods, to a "semi-verbose" results display, and sometimes, for deconstructing back into ballots, or even as an intermediate stage in non-condorcet tabulation methods. I have also been trying to use it as an intermediate stage in producing a less-verbose (
i.e. "executive summary") results display for condorcet elections.<br><br>I guess my question was, for all of the above, doesn't it make more sense to convert the ballots into a matrix as I described? Is there any case where it is less preferable for some reason?
<br><br>So how do you mean "using margins", as a particular condorcet method? Or something else? I'm confused.<br>