I've tried looking pairwise up on wikipedia and get some queer math. can anybody explain simply why election results are shown as "pairwise"? is this an american thing or how bookies work out odds for coupe de triomp?
In the context of the WMF elections, it just means that results are determined by comparing each candidate to each other candidate in groups of two, assigning a winner and a loser for each pair based on how voters ranked them, and then ranking the candidates by number of "pairwise victories" to determine the final results.
It looks like Pairwise comparisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise_comparisonisn't included Pairwise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise disambiguation page. I'll go fix that....
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:06 AM, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
I've tried looking pairwise up on wikipedia and get some queer math. can anybody explain simply why election results are shown as "pairwise"? is this an american thing or how bookies work out odds for coupe de triomp? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l