On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:17:15PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Example: (X is the default option)
> >
> > A B C D X
> > A - 24 17 25 31
> > B 25 - 26 24 29
> > C 31 24 - 31 30
> > D 25 26 18 - 27
> > X 15 18 15 18 -
>
> Just as a note: in my view of the world, where you put a "-",
> I'd put a "0". In principle this shouldn't matter, but maybe
> that has something to do with what you consider ambiguous?
This is no problem. I only looked at
http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/vote_0001
before, and tried to make my table somewhat similar (there are
empty fields on the diagonal). But internally my program uses
the value 0 where I wrote "-" above.
> You didn't say, but the rows in your matrix have to represent the
> vote count "for" an option, and the columns the vote count
> "against", [...]
Yes, of course :-)
> Out of curiosity, how did you generate that set of tallies? Did you start
> from some set of ballots, or did you just randomly generate some numbers?
I wrote some python script to randomly gererate individual votes.
You may find an example file as the second attachment to my
implementation.
> "Unless this would eliminate all vote counts in the propositions of the
> Schwartz set, the vote counts of the weakest propositions are eliminated."
This I can understand :-) If it is the intended meaning
I would like the formulation.
Jochen
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