<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3093" dir="ltr">On this, I would say that there isn't a real difference between the Condorcet Paradox and the Arrow Paradox. For all its fame, Arrow's Theorem was just a reinvention of the wheel. They both boil down to: "Under reasonable assumptions, any ranked-ballot voting method fails independence of irrelevant alternatives". In fact, rated-ballot methods do so in practice as well (score, Majority Judgement etc.) because people are always going to base their scores/grades on the candidates standing rather than in isolation.<br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_2992" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_2991" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_2990" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3028" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3035" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3092"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> steve bosworth <stevebosworth@hotmail.com><br> </font></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_2989"><div id="yiv8291007940"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3052" dir="ltr"><div id="yiv8291007940divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" dir="ltr">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3075" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3074" face="Calibri">Firstly, I believe that Balinski and Laraki
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486911603987_3091"> </span>explain how MJ avoids both “Condorcet paradox” and the “Arrow paradox” (ibid, pp.182-3).<span>
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