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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Marcus,<br>
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      <blockquote type="cite">Barry Wright writes: "[In the 3-candidate
        case] Least Worst
        <br>
        Defeat and Schulze [are] disagreeing on only three elections
        <br>
        per thousand."</blockquote>
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      In the 3-candidate case, how can "Least Worst Defeat" (aka MinMax
      ?) and Schulze <b>ever</b> disagree?<br>
      <br>
      As I understand it, Schulze and MAM  and  River and Smith//MinMax
      can only ever give different winners when<br>
      there are more than three candidates in the Smith set.<br>
      <br>
      That chance of that happening in a real public election is close
      enough to zero, so therefore "MAM versus Shulze" <br>
      strikes me as pointless.<br>
      <br>
      And if it didn't I wouldn't find the argument that one's winner
      pairwise beats the other's a small proportion  of times more<br>
      than vice versa very compelling.<br>
      <br>
      Chris Benham<br>
      <br>
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      On 10/6/2016 4:43 AM, Markus Schulze wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote cite="mid:E1brqhR-0007lo-LX@mailbox.alumni.tu-berlin.de"
      type="cite">Hallo,
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      on the other side, the simulations have also shown that
      <br>
      the worst pairwise defeat of the Schulze winner is usually
      <br>
      weaker than the worst defeat of the MAM winner.
      <br>
      <br>
      Norman Petry writes: "Schulze and Smith//PC are in agreement
      <br>
      on the choice of winner over 90% of the time, regardless of
      <br>
      the size of the Smith set, whereas Tideman's method diverges
      <br>
      in its choices as the size of the Smith set increases."
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2000-November/069868.html">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2000-November/069868.html</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods-list@eskimo.com/msg02310.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods-list@eskimo.com/msg02310.html</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/election-methods-list/conversations/topics/5948">https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/election-methods-list/conversations/topics/5948</a>
      <br>
      <br>
      Jobst Heitzig writes: "Note that Beatpath and Plain Condorcet
      <br>
      are unanimous in all these examples!"
      <br>
      <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-May/078166.html">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-May/078166.html</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/election-methods-list/conversations/messages/14251">https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/election-methods-list/conversations/messages/14251</a>
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      <br>
      Barry Wright writes: "[In the 3-candidate case] Least Worst
      <br>
      Defeat and Schulze [are] disagreeing on only three elections
      <br>
      per thousand." "We do notice that Least Worst Defeat and
      <br>
      Schulze continue to show a very coherent response, agreeing
      <br>
      in nearly ninety-nine percent of all elections through
      <br>
      seven candidates."
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://services.math.duke.edu/~bray/Courses/49s-GTD/Senior%20Theses/Barry%20Wright/Barry%20Wright's%20Thesis.pdf">https://services.math.duke.edu/~bray/Courses/49s-GTD/Senior%20Theses/Barry%20Wright/Barry%20Wright's%20Thesis.pdf</a>
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