Technologos comments on Arrow's Theorem is a Lie - Less Wrong

27 Post author: alyssavance 24 October 2009 08:46PM

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Comment author: Technologos 26 October 2009 05:56:26AM 4 points [-]

I'm not sure how critical it is, but your method fails the IIA test described in Formal Statement of the Theorem on the wiki page. Changing the strengths assigned to outcomes can alter the social choice without changing individual rankings.

Comment author: Technologos 13 November 2009 04:21:18AM 2 points [-]

And it appears Tyler Cowen agrees.