<div dir="ltr">It's definitely nice to see more confirmation that Condorcet cycles are rare. OTOH, I think the claim about IRV rarely failing to elect Condorcet winners is incorrect. If he's looking at Australia and Scotland, those have a 2-party and 1-party dominant system, respectively. No wonder IRV doesn't have Condorcet failures, then, it's playing on easy mode!<div><br></div><div>Ironically, I'd expect to see more Condorcet failures (assuming cycles count as failures) under an actual Condorcet system, because you'd have far more competing parties.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 1:33 PM robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">New paper. (He quotes me early in the paper. That kinda tickled me. :-)<br>
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I'm in contact with the author.<br>
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Just thought some of you might want to be aware of it.<br>
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