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joshkaufman comments on Help with a (potentially Bayesian) statistics / set theory problem? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: dlthomas 11 November 2011 12:46:06AM 0 points [-]

As I understand things, you have no guarantee of transitivity in the aggregated preferences even if you do have transitivity in the individual preferences.

Comment author: VincentYu 11 November 2011 12:55:41AM 0 points [-]

Yes, of course you are correct.

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