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<P>Hello, </P>
<P>I do not completely agree with Paul Kislanko analysis.</P>
<P>1/ The fact that there is 2 or more candidate has no importance, because at
no time you are asked to sort them to more than two classes. So there are the
candidates you like and the candidates you dislike, but at no time you have
candidates you like more and others you like even more. In fact, you can see the
problem as multiple question with yes/no answers. so there is no possibility of
transitivity</P>
<P>2/ Nevertheless, The Arrow Impossibility theorem does NOT necessarily
restrain to the way people vote, but can aslo be applied to the relation between
collective decisions and what people THINK instead of what they VOTE. In this
case, there is an implicit priority graph between people preferences, so the
theorem IS applicable.</P>
<P>... BUT ...</P>
<P>As the collective choices of the group are proven not transitive by the
theorem, the human preference graphs themselves are not transitive and can
contain contradictions (cycles), and even will vary in time and according to the
weather or other non-pertinent data; and this, mostly because human decisions
themselves are resulting from contradictory pulsions, feelings and thoughts. SO
you cannot ask a human democracy to respect constraints that human beings
themselves will not respect.</P>
<P>Philippe Errembault</P></FONT>
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