[EM] Spoiler Effect on Wikipedia

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Thu Nov 11 09:08:31 PST 2004


(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect)


At 5:46 PM +0100 11/11/04, Markus Schulze wrote:
>Neither does Arrow's concept of "irrelevant alternatives"
>imply Tideman's concept of "clones" nor does Tideman's
>concept of "clones" imply Arrow's concept of "irrelevant
>alternatives". They are simply two completely different
>concepts.

At 3:27 AM +1030 11/12/04, Chris Benham wrote:
>By  "IIR", I asume you mean IIAC. Yes, Clone Independence  is  one 
>weakening of  IIAC, so IIAC implies Clone Independence
>(but of course, not vice versa).


hummm....there appears to be two opposing points of view here.

Chris B. claims that IIA satisfaction does imply ICC satisfaction.
Markus S. claims that it does not.



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