Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CfD: Interest Groups Surveys Message-ID: <-UV1G9Fxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 20 Feb 90 01:22:34 GMT References: <22196.25d2eed0@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <22212.25d6c149@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <77031@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <22242.25da835b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1783@skye.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <1783@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes: > Not only that, STV is a lose. Something that is everyone's 2nd choice > can be eliminated. And any other voting scheme is also susceptible to voting paradoxes. If you only eliminate names at the top level that becomes very unlikely. When it works, which is almost all the time, it does the best job of any alternate system at finding the most desirable name (as opposed to pereference voting, which gives you the least undesirable name). -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'