dsource and ranking vs. rating

[Manfred Nowak]

Carlos Santander wrote
> What would be more important in such a system, the absolute
> position or the relative position?

There exists a bunch of characteristica that might be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemeny-Young_method#Characteristics

Sorrily I could not find any evaluations of these characteristica for 
Knud's ranking method "eigenpoll".

-manfred