This one time, at band camp, Frans Pop said: > On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > But note that even if the super-majority issue causes some choices to > > have a low priority of winning, we the project at large can still learn > > very interesting things by studying the Condorcet intermediate results. > > Agreed in general, but... > The issue is not only "winning". The issue is also "not being ranked > because they get dropped before ranking because of failing to reach > majority". This will skew the official final result further than would be > the case in the absence of the super-majority requirements. That's not the end of the world. Even if we continue to use the same algorithm we have now, we still have the raw data. If a super majority option was both dropped from the rankings because it didn't make super majority and the most popular, that will be both significant and noticeable. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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