On May 17, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Russ Paielli wrote:
If I am not mistaken, Arrow's theorem says that you can't satisfy both
the Condorcet criterion *and* the independence of irrelevant
alternatives (IIA). Should that bother us? I think it should bother us
at least a bit. I am bothered by the
At 11:31 PM 5/17/2005, Russ Paielli wrote:
If I am not mistaken, Arrow's theorem says that you can't satisfy both the
Condorcet criterion *and* the independence of irrelevant alternatives
(IIA). Should that bother us? I think it should bother us at least a bit.
I am bothered by the fact that
Curt Siffert siffert-at-museworld.com |EMlist| wrote:
On May 14, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Russ Paielli wrote:
The importance of IIAC is a matter of individual preference, of
course, but it is a perfectly reasonable criterion. If I offer a group
the choice of chocolate or vanilla ice cream, and they
Arrow's result can best be reported as: Arrow proved that a few criteria that he likes are incompatible with eachother.
I think there's more to it than that. It might not sound like such a big deal if you think of his criteria as just some guy's pet concerns. But I think there's a greater
On May 14, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Russ Paielli wrote:
The importance of IIAC is a matter of individual preference, of
course, but it is a perfectly reasonable criterion. If I offer a group
the choice of chocolate or vanilla ice cream, and they choose
chocolate, why should the additional choice of
When I read Curt's posting about Arrow, it was obvious to me that he was
saying that Arrow's impossibility theorem is flawed by the unimportance of
its criteria.
Sure, who appointed Arrow to decide what criteria are reasonable or
necessary or important?
Arrow's result can best be reported as:
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When I read Curt's posting about Arrow, it was obvious to me
On May 14, 2005, at 8:39 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
Arrow's result can best be reported as: Arrow proved that a few
criteria that he likes are incompatible with eachother.
For some reason, many people have given those criteria undeserved
status as the important criteria.
This does beg the
I'm going to take a big chance here and reply to Mike as if he were just
another person. I actually agree with most of what he wrote.
MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp-at-hotmail.com |EMlist| wrote:
When I read Curt's posting about Arrow, it was obvious to me that he was
saying that Arrow's impossibility
