On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:03:21PM -0400, Rick R wrote:
QED
Only relative ordering matters for condorcet, not the absolute rank. e.g., ranking A, B and C rank 1, and D, E and F rank 6 is exactly the same as ranking e.g., ranking A, B and C rank 2, and D, E and F rank 3. In both cases below, moving X down is moving X from the same rank as B to a new rank between B and C,D. Presumably moving it down a second time would merge the X and C,D ranks. Personally, I found assigning ranks with the dropdown list to be easiest. I first sorted them into approx 8 buckets (using ranks like 10,20,40,60,80,100 as buckets, although some ended up between two buckets), and then sorted my highly ranked buckets (where "high" is the end near 10).
2009/3/17 Daniel Schüssler
(correction of the example)
(105: ) (106: A) (107: X,B) (108: C,D) (109: E ) (110: )
moving down X will result in either
(105: A) (106: B) (107: X ) (108: C,D) (109: E ) (110: )
or equivalently
(105: ) (106: A) (107: B ) (108: X ) (109: C,D) (110: E)
Thanks Ian