[EM] There's nothing wrong with Average Rating.

[Ken Johnson]

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>Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:02:20 +0100
>From: Markus Schulze <markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de>
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>my favorite formulation of Arrow's Theorem is Pattanaik and Peleg's
>formulation ... In their formulation, this theorem says that
>there is no rank method that is non-dictatorial and satisfies Pareto
>and regularity. ...
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But is there any such non-rank method? (I presume "rank" means a 
ranked-preference method, which CR is not.)

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> Arrow restricts his considerations to paretian
>non-dictatorial rank methods because he considers other election
>methods to be quite unacceptable. ...
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So is it correct to say that Arrow did not prove that "there is no 
perfect voting system"; he only proved that the methods he deems to be 
acceptable are imperfect?
 
Ken Johnson