<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8318" dir="ltr">I've never been able to work out why local independence of irrelevant alternatives (LIIA) is even something we should care about. It seems to be a criterion for the sake of a criterion.<br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8288" style="display: block;"> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8287" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8286" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8285" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8284" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8283" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> election-methods@electorama.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 8 October 2016, 20:55<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [EM] MAM vs Schulze<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476035551107_8295"><br>On 10/08/2016 03:06 PM, C.Benham wrote:<br>> Mike,<br>> <br>> As far as I can tell, for all intents and purposes MAM, Schulze, River<br>> and Smith//MinMax (wv) are all just different wordings<br>> of the same method.<br>> <br>> If you think that MAM is better than Shulze, then what criterion (that<br>> we might care about) is met by MAM and not Shulze?<br>> <br>> Or perhaps you have some example in mind where you think the MAM winner<br>> is much prettier than the Schulze winner?<br><br>I'm not Mike (and I don't see his posts), but I would probably say LIIA<br>for MAM and IPDA/ISDA for River. <br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></div></body></html>