[EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting?

Andrew Myers andru at cs.cornell.edu
Mon Nov 16 08:53:51 PST 2009


Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Notice that the requirement of Arrow that "social preferences be 
> insensitive to variations in the intensity of preferences" was 
> preposterous. Arrow apparently insisted on this because he believed 
> that it was impossible to come up with any objective measure of 
> preference intensity; however, that was simply his opinion and 
> certainly isn't true where there is a cost to voting. 
Arrow doesn't impose that requirement; that's not what IIA says.

-- Andrew



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