<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_STV">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_STV</a></div>
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<div>definition:</div>
<div>minimal pair-- borrowing the term from linguistics, in this context it means two sets of candidates that differ only by one member. E.g. [X,Y,Z] vs [X,Y,A]</div>
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<div>test candidate-- the candidate that is different in each element of the minimal pair. E.g. Z and A in the above example.</div>
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<div>From what I can gather Schulze STV can be generalized into two procedures</div>
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<div>1) some method of determining which element of a minimal pair is better</div>
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<div>2) a beatpath method for comparing non-minimal pairs.</div>
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<div>Under Schulze STV the first procedure consists of the following:</div>
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<div>Comparing add up how many people uniquely prefer each combination of elemtents of the set to the test candidate of the other set. Call this value the strength of that set. Whichever set is stronger wins.</div>
<div><br>This could conceivably be replaced with a cardinal method. </div></div>