[EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting?
Andrew Myers
andru at cs.cornell.edu
Mon Nov 16 12:15:33 PST 2009
Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> This is in part Arrow's justification for dealing only with ordinal
> (vs cardinal) preferences in the Possibility Theorem. Add may label it
> preposterous, but it's the widely accepted view. Mine as well.
Arrow's Theorem seems like a red herring in the context of the cardinal
vs. ordinal debate. IIA makes just as much sense when applied to range
voting as it does to ranked voting. Arrow was just making a simplifying
assumption and I don't see that it makes his results lose generality.
-- Andrew
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