Timeline for Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts
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| Feb 24, 2012 at 4:31 | comment | added | Charles | @Michael: I haven't time to go into specifics at the moment, but a much better gloss of Arrow's theorem is "IIA is an unreasonable condition in ordinal voting systems"; consider the 3-voter case and any majoritarian system. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 3:14 | comment | added | Michael Greinecker | How exactly is that a missapplication of Arrow's theorem? It is certainly a valid interpretation. | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 19:32 | history | answered | Charles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |